Writing 'love letters"....

United States
August 18, 2009 7:19pm CST
Have you ever written one? I don't mean by text or e-mail but in your very own handwriting? I had written a couple to my now hubby via snail mail and I kept a journal of my thoughts while he lived out of state. I found this article that this sweet couple after 60yrs togeather still kept their letters. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1207125/Couple-wartime-romance-blossomed-600-love-letters-celebrate-60-years-marriage.html If you wrote some do you have any of them still?
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18 responses
• United States
19 Aug 09
I write letters to my boyfriend all the time, cause I'm a creep. But i don't send em out...just leave them for him to find when he gets home from work sometimes. He's saved every single one. And I still have the rose he gave me when I barely got pregnant with our daughter. :)
• United States
19 Aug 09
We used to do that alot when we worked opposite shifts, I had a notebook I'd leave for him. Sadly he only would write a sentance or two in it... but that's a guy for ya.
• United States
19 Aug 09
agreed. he's the only one that gets breakfast in bed anymore :(
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
20 Aug 09
I wrote a couple when I was in college to my high school sweetheart. We both went our separate ways, but packed in a box in my attic are the letters that he wrote to me. I think that there is something special about taking the time to hand-write a letter. It's something that the current generation is definitely missing out on. How happy I would get over going to my mailbox and seeing that I had gotten a letting or card from someone.
@soulist (2985)
• United States
19 Aug 09
There have been times when I wrote a love letter and left it in my ex's apartment when I would go to class or something for him to find. I havent kept any of the love letters I wrote, I recently deleted all the love emails and myspace messages I got from one of my exes. It was like a cleansing process.
• Sri Lanka
19 Aug 09
I wrote a love letter when i was in grade 8.There i girl was following me and she was attracted by me.I didn't know what was the reason because i was not really attractive.But at that times my brother was a prefect of the school and he got to know about this ,then he came to me and asked to stop the relationship because he said if i was continuing that i was not be able to get the prefect-ship next year.Then i wrote a letter to her by convincing all the reasons i had that we have to stop this.After i had some affairs but all the love letters and cards and presents were burnt by me because i think i have a new good life now.
• United States
19 Aug 09
Yes i have..my fiance and I lived 3000 miles apart for 3.5 years of our relationship. We wrote each other letters during that time, and I believe he does still have them. I loved writing him poems too.
@gerl2723 (68)
• Ireland
19 Aug 09
Yeah I still do, I love by mail and send it thru post.(more romantic)
• India
19 Aug 09
Oh yes, of course. In the early 90’s the internet was not on each desk and the snail mail had its pride of place amongst lovers. I was no exception and I think I have written quite a dozen of them to my bf (now hubby of 12yrs)…he is basically an introvert person so I never got so many replies back but those are my treasures of life. I have them kept securely in a bag in the cupboard. Sometimes when I am spring cleaning, out comes the bag and tumbles out the letters...faded and old and the paper so delicate now but I will keep them as long as I can.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
19 Aug 09
I never had written. it is because I am not yet in love. I do not know, even if in love, I had written or not by hand. It is really sweet I guess.
• India
19 Aug 09
Ya I do write love letters to my girlfriend. I don't post them though, I just give her directly into her hand personally. And another yes, I do keep hers and mine letters with me. (Both because I have to hide them from everybody else, she ain't good at hiding ). I too wish that after 60 years, I see my love letters as they are and we cherish them... Thanks for the discussion friend , take care, happy mylotting.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
19 Aug 09
I've written some love "letters" to my bf. Well, I love making cards and scrapbooking. So I've done a lot of cards for him. And yes, wrote on them with my handwriting. I'm fortunate enough to have a neat handwriting - so I try to utilize it for all it's worth.
@malpoa (1214)
• India
19 Aug 09
I have written love letters continously for five years, once every week!!! After two initial years of being together, he moved to a diffrent district for higher studies...I used to eagerly wait for my love's letters and greeting cards...It was my first love and I was in a very serious relationship. I used to write every single thing happening to me on daily basis and used to post in after the letter ran into several pages...This guy to whom I wrote did not replyed with the same frequency as I did. But I used to adore his letters and had kept it long after we broke up...Then I burned it all...It was very sad to do that but that was ther ight thing to do...
• China
19 Aug 09
Ha Ha.Not in college graduation,when my husband wrote me a love letter.I now have children of our marriage.We are very happy.Her husband told me that as soon as possible if we do not write love letters to me.Then they would have other men to write love letters to me.Well,he pursued me too much..Ha Ha.Wishes for the well-being of my friends.
@preema723 (117)
• United States
19 Aug 09
My now husband and I exchanged love letters all throughout college. This all happened at a time when instant messenger and email were very new. He went to college over 2 hours away and we didn't have the opportunity to see each other all that often. We were both struggling college students and couldn't afford sky-high phone bills, so letters were the way to go. Now, of course, mine were much more sappy than his were, but I have kept every single one he ever wrote me. We are now happily married with children and I still look back fondly on that time in our lives.
@scw320 (13)
• China
19 Aug 09
hi, i am sorry to say that i have not written a 'love letter' to a girl,but i would take another way instead of the writing a 'love letter',such as ,by phone,by net, by email,and by our word out of mouth just to her.so in my opinoin, any way is all right ,but the effect is OK.
@ElicBxn (63648)
• United States
19 Aug 09
no, but I've never been in love that way either
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
19 Aug 09
I'm so very happy for them!! It's wonderful to see two people who are in love after all this time. I think he is right, you have to be friends before you can be lovers. That's the way to a lasting marriage and that's why they used to have long engagements. I don't have any of my love letters because they never gave them back. And I have none from anyone because men just don't write. At least not the ones I met. I have a few poems one of them wrote but they weren't to me. I wrote a few love letters to my ex during our marriage, too, but he wasn't impressed and never mentioned them till I did. I think a good love letter will kick-start a relationship if both parties love each other. They are wonderful, something you can pick up and hold and read words from the heart of someone that loves you. I think real letters should make a comeback!
@jugsjugs (12967)
19 Aug 09
I used to write love letters years ago,but now with who i am married to well it is not the kind of thing i would do as it would not mean anything and to be honest he is only used to loving himself as far as i can see.If i did have a man i thought loved me i think i would write a few love letters and leave them in his packed lunch box and maybe on his pillow as well as in his pockets just to make that person feel special.
@anna728 (1499)
• United States
19 Aug 09
I guess I never really have. I mean tried to say something cute within the context of a normal conversation, but never really a proper love letter.