UNC faculty members enjoy spending quality time with their significant others on Valentine's Day and scoff at the notion that only young people can enjoy the holiday.
But most agree that the holiday improves with age because the quality of love gets better.
"Valentine's Day gets better as you get older because you know what love is about," said UNC journalism Professor Rhonda Gibson.
Gibson said she and her husband, Joe Bob Hester, also a journalism professor at UNC, plan to celebrate Valentine's Day by going away for the weekend. She chose to keep the trip's location a secret.
Gibson praised the opportunity to work with a spouse. "If you get along it's a good thing," she said.
She added that being married makes Valentine's Day better because it eliminates some of the worries common among young people. "It's great being married on Valentine's Day," she said.
She also said that while some people think of romance as a young thing, mature love is better.
Gibson added that she does not have any suggestions as to what faculty members could do for Valentine's Day because she just moved to Durham.
But UNC journalism Professor Chuck Stone said the holiday is broad enough to include different types of love other than romantic.