Foo - When was the last time you wrote a love letter?

How long has it been since you've written a full-blown love letter? You know, sat down and wrote something out by hand?

Do people still do that kind of thing these days? Or is that a forgotten relic?

My wife keeps all mine. I don't think she ever wrote any for me because I don't have any from her. But then again, I'm not that good of a filer. :p

Edit: I don't remember. :(

1972

Counting yesterday?

Then about 5 years ago.

Never.

I've never had to ask a female out either. Either I'm really lucky, or my standards are 20,000 leagues beneath the sea.

Never.

I've never had to ask a female out either. Either I'm really lucky, or my standards are 20,000 leagues beneath the sea.
Maybe we should take a poll on that one. ;) :p

Every morning when I get to work, I write my Wife an email to her place of employment, with all the news of new Love found overnight with her and other fine things to say to your Wife.

The answer would be, every day.

Every morning when I get to work, I write my Wife an email to her place of employment, with all the news of new Love found overnight with her and other fine things to say to your Wife.

The answer would be, every day.


Wow, you've been married a whole month, huh? ;)

Wow, you've been married a whole month, huh? ;)


My thoughts exactly.

9 years ago....that one was supposed to be given with a ring, but like most of my life, it took a strange twist and things didn't happen as planned.

It was actually a Petrarchan Sonnet, something I'm actually really good at making...I've only made two so far, one was delivered to the same person as above on the two year mark of us dating.

Ronald Reagan penned some legendary love letters to Nancy Reagan over the years. They had quite a thing going with each other.

an actuall letter? 1992, my senior summer of high school. To a girl who wasn't even close to deserveing the effort. Unfortunately, every girl since has felt the wrath of that relationship, cause I've never written one since. I will admit though, it will make recognizing the girl i'm gonna marry very easy. If someone ever makes me feel that strongly again to write one, i'll know she's the one.

1st Grade. (To my teacher.)

Ronald Reagan penned some legendary love letters to Nancy Reagan over the years. They had quite a thing going with each other.
I believe that was the origin of the "Just say No" campaign. ;)

Musta been 1990 or there abouts...

I USED to get love letters........:(

/\/\ "Well, he USED to write Siu Blue Wind love letters!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZgrQPiuVdc) <-- click the link!

ohh gosh, im laughing here, the last time i actually wrote a love poem to my hubby, it was a few months after we met, it was the "touching feet" poem ( no, i still dont like my food touching but im OK with feet touching:p )
we used to lay in bed and I liked our feet to gently touch, so i wrote a whole poem about it :lol:
wow, i had almost forgotten this! he still has it somewhere, I remember years ago we had this huge fight, so he got out the touching feet poem!:p

Not since I stopped my subscription to Penthouse in 1975..... :D

Not since I stopped my subscription to Penthouse in 1975..... :D
I could be wrong, but I don't think the kind of love letters being referenced here include phrases such as "heaping scoops of quivering flesh," "they defied gravity" or "I never thought I'd writing to the Forum, but . . . ." :rolleyes:

It was actually a Petrarchan Sonnet, something I'm actually really good at making..
Wow, impressive. I have to look that up to even remember their format. :o


I USED to get love letters........:(
The question was the last time you wrote one.


Ronald Reagan penned some legendary love letters to Nancy Reagan over the years. They had quite a thing going with each other.
Yes, lots of people used to do it. I take it not much any more? What takes its place now? Text messaging?

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Ah, the romance!

October before last. I'd rather not get into it.

A couple of weeks ago to the wife. We have a dry erase board we put notes on as well.

Yes, lots of people used to do it. I take it not much any more? What takes its place now? Text messaging?

AIM and night and weekend minutes. :p

before most of you were born

Velo, if people don't write love letters anymore, it's probably just a symptom of a larger issue: People don't write physical letters at all anymore, love or not. Letter-writing seems to be something of a lost art these days Email is too informal and ruined by spam to matter or to be much of a parallel. Instant messaging and the telephone are instantaneous, so there's no composing going on. I guess the closest thing these days would be the posts that people put on their personal web sites (or "b**g" as the media has seen fit to rename them), except those tend to be letters to no one.

I do agree, though, that it is a shame.

Does leaving roses, chocolates, and a brief note on her doorstep in the middle of the night count? I wanted her to find them before leaving for work in the morning. We had been dating for a while already, and she was planning to stay over at my place for the first time later that evening; I wanted to surprise her and get her day started right.

If so, then about 4 years ago.

I've written a few sad love letters. And some weird ones. I can't recall the last time I wrote a good love letter. I must have at some point though. Do you distinguish between a letter and a note? Does a letter have to be more than one page?

Aah, I would actually love to do that again, and it is so romantic.

But as I'm single right now, I don't think my right hand is going to care much about any letter I write it. Hell if I did it would probably just fall in love with my left hand for writing it. And where would I be then?

Do txts count?

Every morning when I get to work, I write my Wife an email to her place of employment, with all the news of new Love found overnight with her and other fine things to say to your Wife.

The answer would be, every day.


Too funny. Come back to me in 8 years and let me know how those emails are going.

Too funny. Come back to me in 8 years and let me know how those emails are going.
:lol:
try 20:rolleyes:
others things do get better, but unfortunatly the closest we get to writting passionate letters to each other is the grocery list!

Do txts count?

ur txts r nt cntd!

:lol:
try 20:rolleyes:
others things do get better, but unfortunatly the closest we get to writting passionate letters to each other is the grocery list!


I wouldn't trade in my matured relationship for the same relationship 6 years ago, but there aren't exactly many love letters going around. It is better than it ever was, but I think that is a product of not having volatile emotions floating around that is so typical of a relationship in the beginning. There is something to be said for stability, comfort, and trust.

^^^^ yes, when I say other things get better, that's what I mean, there is no love letter but we climbed montains of problems together, took the high road and yet always came back to one another.
you know what? I think this thread makes me want to write him a love letter, just for the heck of it :) and I will tonight when I have time!

I wrote quite a few, as in almost everyday, during my last extended stay in Kuwait in 95. Other than that, I usually write two a year, one for her birthday and one for Mothers Day, which go into the envelope with the obligatory card. She still has them all which makes quite an impressive stack after 20 years.

And to answer the original question, never. However, my boyfriend is also an engineer so he could probably read my handwriting. :D

A couple of weeks ago to the wife. We have a dry erase board we put notes on as well.
I wish I knew what happened to our dry erase board. we used to write notes on that every day. My last one was yesterday, the day before, the day before that and then about 3 days before that. However it had been too long in between those and the previous ones. She got all of the recent ones when we went out to dinner yesterday. It's funny. She said she was ready to come home before we went to dinner. and after we talked yesterday, and reading my thoughts feelings, fears, and hopes she apparently needs some time to think. I've been forced to think and replay all of our actions and words in my head. I'm the one here in our bed, with all of our things. She was shocked when she saw me without my beard. I told her I got tired of crying when I found one of her hairs in it instead of smiling. I think that hit her hard. we went out Friday and over the weekend I got quite a tan and shaved the beard. I've lost even more weight. I've been losing weight for a while now. I stopped for a while. I was at 250 and I dropped to 187. She's been gone since a week ago sunday and the extent of her thinking about us has been wanting to be home, in her bed with me. SHe hasn't thought much about how we are going to fix things between us. Maybe realizing how much I really feel and what I think had some impact and she'll think about it. she knows we need to talk, and actually communicate. We need to learn how. She sees that I'm trying to work on my issues. I told my boss I needed a week off, because I've needed it for a while. I'm also cutting my hours at work and maybe getting away from the midnight shift. I was going to have to cut back anyway when school gets harder again in the fall, I might as well do it now. I'm burned out. I've been spreading myself too thin and not always remembering to do the little things. She's never been good at them anyway, but I gave her a reason to try. I feel with all my hard work I failed her. I failed myself. I cannot allow myself to be spread too thin and push aside the things that are important to me. We both have had mostly bad relationships in the past neither one of us is used to being treated with kindness and respect. sometimes you search for what's familiar and make the situation something you are used to and not what it can be. I'm ready to do that. I guess she's not. Maybe I'll get a love letter from her soon saying that. If that's what she feels that's what I want. Letters are not always childish. Sometimes we allow life to get in the way and are thinking something right then and need the person to know it but may not have a chance to say it. It's a token of love that sometimes means more than just words. Spoken words can become habit. even if you mean everyone of them, sometimes along the way they lose their meaning. You can tell someone you love them til you're blue in the face but it lacks meaning if you don't SHOW it.