Write an Awesome Romantic Love Letter: The Simple “5R” Approach

I “courted” my wife on the internet. My love letters were emails!
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Awesome idea! I think men especially need to be encouraged to try this. We women go crazy for this stuff! I like the idea of mailing it to your spouse, especially if he/she is usually the one to check the mail. There’s nothing like receiving a hand-written card or letter in the mail; and I can imagine it’s twice as nice when it’s from your own spouse, who could have told you those things in person, but decided to go the extra mile to make it memorable.

One of the easiest love letters for me to write my husband is a list of the Top Ten reasons why I love him. I try to include things about his appearance, his personality, his skills, and his masculinity. Who couldn’t use an ego boost every once in a while?

Thanks for these tips!

I love all the good ideas! I might try this out soon!

Great tips. It is important to connect on a regular basis and sending a letter is always a pleasant surprise!

Very useful tips! My handwriting is truly embarrassing these days. Should start to practice writing with pen every day for 10 mins at least.
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Just completed hand-writing a letter to my fiancee’ who turns 28 tomorrow. Though my penmanship is awful, my thoughts were heartfelt. We’ll see what she says.

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I was reading your post on Problogger and decided to check your site out. It is amazing that you’ve built such an active community! I also like the fact that you interact with every comment…though I wonder where you find the time!

I am commenting here because a love letter is a nearly lost art form. I have done a free e-book with some ideas for love letters and have written a TON myself. My significant other is in Kuwait and has been for about 7 months. He’s not military but works as a civilian supporting the military. I despise that this was the only work he could find in our economy but its definitely made me find new ways to show I care, and my various love letters are hopefully doing that well!

Another great thing one can do is make or find stationary online to print out. I have dabbled in making some myself, and printed it on color paper. I’ve had some great results and some “could have been better ones”. There are a decent number of free to download stationary out there.

Awesome points in this post. I hope everyone who is inspired to write will pay special attention the the point about it being heart felt. It doesn’t need to be a 10 page opus or even full of flowery turns of phrase…heartfelt will make your words flow perfectly for you.
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I completely second mailing the letter! While we were dating my husband and I lived about 2 hours apart and wrote each other letters constantly. Every time a letter came in the mail my heart would skip a beat and I would get butterflies in my stomach. I just know I would get that exact same feeling if he did that now, even though it’s been 6 years since we were mailing each other letters.

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This simple “5R” approach is good and practical but you must be a good writer and not everyone is a good writer.

Someday when time passes and our age begins to show upon our faces, may you know that once in a small town lived a southern girl whose heart was only stolen once by a northern man older than she. His voice spoke often to her for two whole years. She remembered his stories told of his native father. She remembered his face as she first saw it at the airport in Missoula Montana. The week we spent together was more than she could have ever imagined of love in her life. Though, she has it no more wearing her heart upon sleeve, all that left when he leaves. She knows she will never endure such a feeling. Her southern life as kept her captive, and him in his as freely an eagle that flies for distances into the setting sun. She remembers and imagines still the stillness of the valley he had taken her to at castle rock. The cold cold winter, the touches of his hand so warm in hers. The sadness of not feeling anything more in her life. It has past her now and he will never know her loss. He will never know that golden streets are not gold, that only sunset’s that linger in her mind give her the satisfaction of once feeling loved.Never again ..never more.

Lovely tips. I will give a try and see what happens.

Great idea writing a love letter. For our 5yrs wedding anniversary, I couldnt think of anything better to give my husband other than a letter to him. Sometimes we dont say it too well with words, put it into writting and share it with the world too!!

Here is a link to the letter – http://bukville.com/2010/10/15/adey-my-crown-joy/

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Great Article. We many times loose sight of the little things. Many times in life those are the things that are the most memorable, and the most appreciated. I really enjoyed this and plan to write mine today!

Loved your article. My husband is active duty military, so during deployments and extended trainings away from home, I’ve become quite good at writing letters. It takes a couple tries to “knock the rust off” your skills, but I found it to be one of my most precious activities while he is gone. Also, nothing brightens my day more than opening the mailbox and seeing a letter from him. I guess I never stopped to consider that when your spouse is home all the time, there really isn’t an explicit need for letter writing. But I agree with you– you should try it anyway!

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Here’s an idea for you that I did a couple of years ago. I think it was for our 25th anniversary. We had a box in the attic with some old love letters and wedding memorabilia. I went through the box and retrieved all the old letters and put them in a book and presented it to my wife as part of an anniversary gift. It was fun looking at all the old letters together. I have to admit, though, that writing letters to my wife now is something I should be doing and I know she’d love it. Thanks for the reminder. Now, where’s my pen?

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I still have every love letter and love journal that my boyfriend (now husband) wrote to me. The letters themselves are written in pen or pencil and on notebook paper, but the journal is my favorite. He went all out with a black leather(fake leather) journal, all of his writing in cursive with an ink well and quill pen and in very neat penmanship told me our story of how we met and all of his feelings from his side of the story. It had to be one of the best things I’ve ever received from him.

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