The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has once again proven he is a true romantic at heart, turning, like so many Australians, to social media to send his wife a valentine.
But it wasn’t a heart warming quote or a snap of rose petals scattered across the linen of the prime-ministerial suite at The Lodge, it was a flashback to the days when they were young, in love and carefree.
A throwback to the times when the polls weren’t so temperamental and the hairline wasn’t so determined to recede.
In a loving Valentine’s message to his wife, Lucy Turnbull, the Prime Minister put the rest of us to shame with a carefully worded post that popped up early Sunday morning. Making sure to cover all bases he posted to all of his social media accounts (just in case Lucy missed it perhaps?) a sweet flash back of the Turnbulls as a young couple.
In the faded pic the loved-up pair are cuddling up on a couch and smiling to the camera.
Mr Turnbull’s accompanying text revealing a romantic turn of phrase the prime minister is clearly comfortable with, having first used it in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2014.
His post said: “When I first asked Lucy to marry me she said, ‘Let’s wait until we grow up.’ Well we didn’t wait long and now it is almost impossible to imagine, let alone remember, what it was like not to be together, so much so that I have a much clearer sense of ‘Lucy and me’ than I do of ‘me’.”
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When I first asked Lucy to marry me she said, “Let’s wait until we grow up.” Well we didn’t wait long and now it is…
Posted by Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday, February 13, 2016
It’s a statement about his relationship he has used before at this time of the year, telling The Australian Women’s Weekly for a Valentine’s Day article in 2014 “Over the years, we have grown together. It is almost impossible to imagine, let alone remember, what it was like not to be together, so much so that I have a much clearer sense of “Lucy and me” than I do of “me”.
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Whatever happened to being happy for another person's happiness? Yes, some people don't get to marry the one they love, but are you really going to be all bitter and twisted at someone else's happiness? I spent the first 30 years of my life single with no partner in sight - I certainly didn't begrudge friends and family the good fortune in finding the one, and celebrating their milestones. We really are a self-centred society these days, if someone can't simply announce how much they still love their partner after so many years together, without people cracking the shits!
As for Bill Shorten - what a tool!!! He writes what he thinks people want to read, he does not live his truth at all. What a puppet!
So this is how far political correctness (and associated outrage) has gone. We are not even allowed to say that we love someone without thinking it over, and rethinking it, and rethinking it again.... then probably just giving up because it all seems too hard.
It was a lovely sentiment. The guy obviously adores his wife, and chose to say that. Did nobody else get that this was the point of the message?
Bravo world. Even saying you love someone is now apparently off limits (unless qualified by a long extra statement that makes sure to include every possible minority and whitewashed of any possible offence to every possible group). I get what people are saying but I find this whole thing really really sad.
Took the words right out of my mouth!!