Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
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Posted: 1/25/2008 6:19:00 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? Has anyone received or written a love letter lately...or perhaps saved one from years ago that still holds memories? And if you got one would you assume the author was a modern-day romantic, or would you start to wonder if they had a basement with hundreds of zoom lens pictures of you everywhere?
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?
Wondering what people's thoughts are on this.
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Posted: 1/25/2008 6:45:34 PM | Thanks mate for highlighting the fact that no one has ever sent me a love letter!! | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
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Posted: 1/25/2008 8:06:02 PM | Dear Hilly,
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....
There. Now you've received one.  Sorted!  | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 8:30:04 PM | Yep....I have some from both my wife and from my ex. That was something they both did and I really enjoyed.
I used to write poems occassionally for no reason to my wife. But I have friends who do or recieve neither which I think is a bit sad. | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 8:32:36 PM | | and no...hallmark cards and Emails don't count in my opinion. It has t something from your heart and tangible. | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
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Posted: 1/25/2008 8:54:05 PM | ^^^ Yeah Briz, loveletters are a fantastic momento for those who end up finding themselves in our boat. I remember when I was sorting stuff, in my husband's wallet I found a dog eared folded page that turned out to be a love letter I'd written him when we were first dating that he'd carted around for all those years. Very touching.
Emails no go? One boyfriend I had saved all the emails we'd written each other during our early months of our relationship, printed them off in a nice font, and had them bound into a book, and gave them to me as a gift. Maybe not love letters...but a modern day version of it perhaps? | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 9:33:53 PM | | Used to when I actually had a girlfriend. Less often you do it, the more special it is though (To a point...). Otherwise it just winds up being tacky and over-done, not to mention predictable. Timing is as much a part of it as the writing itself. Used to wait until I felt it was needed e.g. when they've been feeling a bit swamped and run-down. | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 9:44:36 PM | | would erotic emails be the modern day love letter? | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 10:00:21 PM | | Wonder if a "wanna watch me cam babe" email counts?? | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 10:12:17 PM | Emails no go? One boyfriend I had saved all the emails we'd written each other during our early months of our relationship, printed them off in a nice font, and had them bound into a book, and gave them to me as a gift. Maybe not love letters...but a modern day version of it perhaps?
I take it back...That sounds like a pretty cool thing to do....But only because it took effort....I think it means something when there's effort like that. | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 10:19:23 PM |
Wonder if a "wanna watch me cam babe" email counts??
I'm sorry Hilly, I should have put more heart into it. I didn't mean to be so apathetic...You deserve better. | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 11:55:01 PM | I used to write them and if I will find the right person I will write it again. I think that when we are in love this kind of writing is coming directly from the heart... The delivery medium is unimportant - well maybe paper letter with cute envelope looks nicer.  | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 1:58:18 AM | What a lovely topic.
While we were courting, I used to receive love letters from my husband. On average once a week and he would always send me some roses with it. I think it is truly romantic that a man is able to share his feelings in this way. He also wrote poetry to me.
While we were dating, we didn't have emails, so this was always done in the printed form.
A halmark card is nice, but it is written by someone else and very few times do they express what we are trying to say.
I did receive one text message once from him that simply said, I love you. It made my day.
My husband was very ro0mantic tho, he even sketched the photo I have on here as my profile photo. Very tallented he was.
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Posted: 1/26/2008 5:18:44 AM | | Yes love letters are great. I have a wooden suit case I made at school and inside it has many of my personal things in it like love letters. Every blue moon I find it again and have a look inside and reminds me what it was like in them relationships. These letters are special and will always hang onto them, they are a part of my history. Maybe one day I will write them again.. Thing is what happened to the letters I had written!!! | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 5:45:45 AM | courting? love letters?
sigh.... I live in hope! | |
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dv8sex
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Joined: 12/26/2007
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Posted: 1/27/2008 12:25:07 AM | | i love writing love letters, but alas i had to stop shortly after Victorias anti stalking legislation came out a while back.. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 2:10:35 AM | I've written one. It was several pages long, but the love in question turned out to be one of those horrible unrequited things.
I despise SMS for anything other than arranging meeting places etc. It is a severely limited form of communication way too open to misinterpretation especially involving matters of the heart. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 3:18:28 AM | The morning sun peeks its golden rays
Through the gap in the curtains
It falls gently on your innocent sleeping face
As if it to doesn’t want to wake you
Just wrap you in its soft warmth
As I want to wrap you in the blanket of my love.
My heart beats a little stronger watching you
Drinking in the vision of the woman I love
As my emotions glow knowing you love me.
You stir, a small smile playing upon your lips
Perhaps dreaming of me and lasts nights passion.
But perhaps not instead dreaming of a far away city
Hand in hand as we walk along the river
Enjoying being close, loved and together.
Your eyes open, focussing, scanning the room
Until our eyes meet and you are startled until you
Realise that it the man who loves you.
You pull up the covers a cheeky sexy smile lighting up your face
The little innocent girl comes out to play
Her wide eyed wonder enticing
As my heart beats a little stronger
And the morning sun falls gently upon your face
My ex wrote this for me and yes I was blown away, it was just so beautiful and so unexpected. I thought we were going to get married and live "happily ever after". I got dumped and 3 weeks later he took up with someone else and they got engaged last month after only knowing each other 3 months. Go figure !!! maybe it wasnt really meant for me
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Posted: 5/12/2008 9:58:17 AM | 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?
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Neither greeting cards nor emails count. THEY DO NOT COUNT. They are nice, I loved getting greeting cards from the now recent ex. They were thoughtful and a pleasant surprise in the mail....THEY WERE NOT LOVE LETTERS!
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Now, after three years she has broken it off with me because of my disorganization, procrastination about taxes, and messiness inside my house (though I was a nice dresser, well spoken, clean breath, and worlds greatest lover)------
What should I do with this 1/2 finished book (its one of those blank diary types) of poems I wrote her (she loved the other ones) that I was going to give her on Valentines day, then bumped up to our third year anniversary at the end of May? | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 1:01:11 PM | I was told i havent got a single romantic bone in my body.
Which was about right, because whe she told me that, i wasnt in love with her.
And that is the magic ingredient here: Being smitten, being in love.
Love letters only flow then.
Any other time they are just about impossible to 'create' i find.
Like Pookie said though, while love letters are nice they seem to be as permanent as our relationships.
Maybe us single people should develop an alternative - something like 'platonic friendship letters' ?
Hilly, 'platonic love' is a non-sexual affectionate relationship.
(she hates it when she doesnt know what we are talking about . . . ) | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 3:41:19 PM | I'm with you, Kobalt:
And that is the magic ingredient here: Being smitten, being in love.
You can't make it up - and if you're in love with somebody, it dopesn't matter how you deliver the message...as long as you do.
I keep all of mine, until I can't remember why I cared about keeping them in the first place...and then I chuck them out. This process takes years - if it ever happens! They take me back to a time when I knew I was important to somebody's life...when I made somebody's existence sweeter just by being in it! It's the same with all personal things for me - letters and drawings from my kids are a big one in my house.
And I write them too...constantly. When I'm in love, it's easy. They don't all get delivered...more likely to find a note in a lunchbox than an essay under a pillow.
Sometimes it's harder to say things.....so I write them. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 6:25:43 PM | Emails don't count. As stated in Cruel Intentions "Email is for geeks and pedophiles. Write a letter."
Hallmark cards don't count. It's stolen sentimentality, not genuine feeling. Similarly quoting someone else means nothing. My sister once got a letter that was almost entirely Bon Jovi lyrics from a guy. No wonder she's gay now.
There's something special about a letter. It takes time. It's physical. It even has a smell. Email, by contrast, is a "dead" medium. It's sterile.
That being said, the words expressed and the thoughts still have meaning. There's nothing wrong with saying how you feel in email, it's just not quite as "special". Any medium you can say something in you can say something nice in. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 10:59:04 PM | Ahhhhh... I remember them!
I was married to soldier, he used to go away for 3 months at a time. Yeah... I've written heaps of em. He used to put wild flowers in his and send them back to me when the army were out bush. Ho Humm.... all the romance and non of the staying power
They are very special and from the heart. Cards don't do that. WG you are so right, there is something very special about going to the letter box and finding a love letter. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2008 11:21:46 PM | I agree with the common theme here that you have to be in love to write love letters.
When my ex husband and I were dating, I wrote him a few lovey dovey poems and he kept them all those years, still has them now. I do believe that cards count too though, especially if you add a personal message and it's genuine and heartfelt. | |
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Posted: 5/13/2008 1:23:55 AM | | Courting Letters CC? is that like a summons? lololol | |
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