| Love Letters
Posted: 5/13/2008 1:42:19 AM | I received a lovely letter from my ex,well it was a card really but he had written in it.
He loved me and always would,our marriage was great and we had many happy years to come and the kids and I were everything to him.
About 3 weeks later he left and moved in with his lover.
Dont attach much credence to love letters myself!!! 
Where is the "poking the ex in the eye" smiley???? | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 1:50:51 AM | | ^^^^^YOUR KIDDING! now thats bad! | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 2:05:51 AM | I used to write a love letter to my ex every day when I was in East Timor. These were hand written and delivered my real mail. Didn't get too many back, should have been a sign I guess!!
Actually reminds me of something. When I first broke up with my ex before we were married I had a ceremonial burning of every letter she had ever sent me, my friend who was watching said I was making a mistake but I ignored him. 2 Years later when I was moving out of that house one of the letters I was certain I had burnt showed up in my top draw. A draw I used every day. My friend swore black and blue he didn't put it there and I believed him as he would not have had a chance to. Really weird!! | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 4:27:10 AM | hmmm i suppose "wanna root" doesnt count....lmaooooo sorry just looking for some levity...lol
I think maybe with modern communication these days the love letter could possibly be a thing of the past for some people ...besides after you get upteen text messages untold amounts of msn messages emails by the truckload and phone calls ...when is some one going to sit down and actually put pen to paper...lol..In some ways it is another thing that has kinda gone by the wayside with the techno revolution and is sad in some ways
cheerz all
be safe and be well | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 6:47:16 AM | | ^^^ Still waiting for the phone call! Monaro.. then you can txt me wanna root all you like..lol | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 12:11:17 AM |
you can txt me wanna root all you like
Why do women never say this to me?? Well it can't be me, it must be the women!! | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 12:20:07 AM | sheesh vegemite ummm what can i say....lol....
It could be chopper...lol...
so am now trying to define if that is a love letter from vegemite or she just wants the scraps from my garden when i finish weeding...lmaooooo
cheerz all be safe and be well | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 12:30:07 AM | I used to go out with a guy who would text me a coupla lines from our favourite songs, not necessarily romantic but very cool and always bought a smile to my face, even tho i sometimes had to look up the lyrics online to figure out what song it was, never had a love letter in my life tho 
ronda :) | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 12:50:53 AM | Ha ha.. chopper indeed...
It was my love letter, and your vege garden... hmmm not going there! Who knows whats growing... | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 2:23:49 AM | I think that it would be nice for a guy to write down how he felt...I personally would love it.. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 3:07:15 AM | would be very nice but i aint holding my breath lol
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Posted: 5/14/2008 6:08:49 AM | I've exchange a few hate letters with one of my ex's
I’ve only had one girlfriend that I’ve exchanged love letters with, she would write the most beautiful letters in French tie them up with ribbon and drop them in my mail box. I can’t understand a single word of French but I use to love lying on the front lawn imagining what they said from the punctuation or the passion in the handwriting…hmmm some good memories there. | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 11:20:02 PM | | I love Love letters, you can keep the kisses next to your bed or under your pillow, they keep the things of his heart, close so you dont feel like your so far apart from each other.. | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 11:25:56 PM | I've never tried to read a French letter...I usually just wrap themn in a tissue and chuck 'em in the bin.
Sorry. | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 11:38:37 PM | Yep bewitched, treating a love letter someone sent you like a used condom is a good method to turning into a middle aged lady . . . 'that writes her own poetry'.  | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 11:40:32 PM | | Oh, oh.....I'm a middle aged lady. I AM NOT! Middle aged, I'll accept. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2008 3:36:43 AM | Just thought I'd revive this thread to annoy all the unromantic old thread Nazis.
And for those who are fans of the love letter...
Are Hallmark cards an adequate substitute?
What about emails?
Surely the idea of a love-text would have Cupid cringing in a corner...or... maybe not?
I don't think new forms of communication have to be sterile and unromantic, I think it can depend on how they are used. One of my boys is having a long distance romance, and as well as sending emails and hand written letters they also have an small portable hard drive that they fill with all sorts of messages, photos and recordings an mail backwards and forwards to each other. I'm sure they could send all these messages via the internet, but posting makes it so much nicer.
They also tie up the phone for hours at a time too, caught him reading her a bedtime story the other night, very cute.
My other boy sometimes writes messages on big pieces on card, takes a photo of himself holding the card and then posts the picture on his friends myspace page.
I reckon it's all about making it personal.
But hallmark cards.... | |
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Posted: 6/24/2008 3:40:50 AM | I still have all the love letters my ex hubby sent me ,... might read them again one day ... not a fan of emails or sms love messages and Hallmark cards?? forget it say it yourself if its worth saying' | |
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| Love Letters
Posted: 6/24/2008 4:00:22 AM | I used to be with a soldier and he wrote me my first love letter. I carried them around all the time and read them, always smiling, always missing him. He said the same about my letters to him.
I couldn't bring myself to burn his letters when we split up, nor read them. Only recently have I read them again and it makes me smile. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2008 4:10:54 AM | | i used to write love letters but after a few i gave up because the best i could get from my ex was a grade F with the comment could do better lol | |
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Posted: 6/24/2008 5:24:22 AM | awwww... Love letters are cool. Same as love notes, and msgs in the sand, and "I love you" spelled out in alphagetti.
Long live lifes lovers!
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Posted: 6/25/2008 9:46:12 PM | Love letters are like extensions of your soul. They can be used to convey your deepest feelings and intentions.
I use to like puting a little note into my love's current reading book on top of her bookmark. Or sometimes on the steering wheel of her car. | |
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Posted: 6/26/2008 2:57:47 PM | I've still got a 'sort of' love letter a guy wrote to me when I was about 17 or 18. We used to work at the same company and hang out, outside the building with others, at lunchtime. I didnt get out one day, so he left me a note on my little moped. It still makes me smile... Life just seemed so simple then. It says sometime like:
Lunchtime was a wilderness without you. Started to clean your bike but I had to go. Will I see you tomorrow?
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Posted: 11/14/2008 1:55:26 PM |
Does anyone write love letters anymore, or is it an art long ago thrown out the window of this speeding car life we now lead?
Well Naamah, since you ask..... heh heh
Writing love letters does seem to be an art that's gone out the window.
And the more I think about it, the more reasons there seem to be for it being a disappearing art.
Writing itself is an art. When the combined aims are beauty of expression, economy of phrase, and clarity of meaning, even simple communications can assume significance beyond the intended function.
Language is a tool, and like any tool the outcomes of it's use are governed by the skill of the operator. It's a complicated tool though, and to achieve maximum potential much time is needed, much thought and care, and maybe a lot of practice too.
All of these prerequisites are under threat from the speed of 'modern life'. A meal in less than 2 minutes, 30 second TV ads that have 20-40 scene changes, minute by minute scheduling that allows families 5.7 minutes of 'quality time' per day, take a course, fast-track your degree, become an IT professional overnight, don't wait, get it now... we deliver.
The instant results stripped of superfluity culture is the enemy of beauty, meaning, and significance.
Because, what sort of meal do you get in two minutes? How high the quality of fast tracked education? What is happening to families?
Writing also requires a receptive audience. Whoever it is, one or many, they have to understand what is being attempted. Obviously really, because language is communication and it's no use being a virtuoso communicator in a world of deaf people.
For instance, on Scott's disastrous expedition to the South Pole, they got lost, ran out of food, and eventually froze to death. They knew there was no hope of rescue, one presumes they didn't want to die, but they knew it was coming. At some point Capt. Oates gets to his feet and says to the men still alive, frozen, starving, and near death, but still alive... "I'm just going outside; I may be away for some time."
Not exactly a love letter hey? But powerful language all the same.
Where did they think he was going? Were they worried when he didn't come back? After all, there's a thousand kilometers of solid ice in every direction, they haven't seen the sun for three weeks, there's a blizzard howling outside with winds so fast it broke their instruments, they know it's colder than minus 60 degrees centigrade because their thermometer froze when the temperature dropped below that...
He could have said "L8r dudes, goin for a slash, bk in 5". But would anyone have cared enough to write down what he said?
The fact is, they understood what he was saying. They understood the significance of the gesture. They could appreciate the full payload being carried by simple words, in a simple sentence.
Another example, getting back with the theme, is the poem (it was really a love letter disguised as a poem) Elizabeth Barrett wrote to her husband, Robert Browning. Everyone knows it, well... at least the first couple of lines. She enriched the language, and thereby the lives of all it's speakers, with a few carefully chosen words.
"How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways..."
She could have written, "Hey Bob U R hOt, waNNa cam?"
But luckily she didn't, because Bob (Robert Browning) probably would have just read and deleted it.
As Shakespeare said... "A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet..." And likewise, in my opinion, bad writing reeks the same as any other trash.
Beauty is truth according to Keats. For me, I love beauty. I... Love Letters. Love is never a wasted effort. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 3:39:45 PM | Jeeze mate..., you did the almost impossible..., You made me think.
....., and act....,
Attempted Freckle love letter to new significant other now under contsruction...,
so I say..., thanks for re-awakening Ms. naamahs post. | |
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