Art of writing love letters has been lost

**~~SunTzu123~~** · 04-29-2010, 02:25 PM

would you rather recieve a love letter or a text message

**Mistress Kitti** · 04-29-2010, 02:57 PM

Love received...no matter what form...is a blessing. And welcomed with open arms. However...more ~sentimental~ *for a lack of words*, would be that of hand-written scripture. jmho

**~~Quantum Leap~~** · 04-29-2010, 03:04 PM

[Space reserved for comment later ... after I finish reading the said essay ... and eating my pizza

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**o0miza0o** · 04-29-2010, 03:24 PM

Everything SunTzu said is correct. My friend & her ex made journals for each other & every time they had something to say about the another, they would write it down. Then they would swap books & read what they had to say. It was very cute.
All it did was make their relationship stronger & that is the greatest thing ever!

Originally Posted by AbstractAngel

The saddest part is that the most romantic guy ever in my life was and still is my brother. (NO NOT IN A SICK WAY)

He treats me like a queen, dances with me, compliments me, writes me "love you sis" letters, the works. And he's that way with his wife, too (obviously to a much larger degree). I've sadly never met anyone else who has ever wanted to do that stuff with/for me.

I heard a song he had written for his wife once and it literally made me cry. Because I will never have someone who loves me enough to do that aside from my own family, even if they do "love me". And because to me, he's the most amazing person in the world because of who he is and what he does, and deserves the adoration of everyone around him which, in a world like this, he'll never have.

Love letters/romance to a girl are never ever rejected if they feel the same way. It's just sad that people no longer want to risk the chance that expressing how they feel will be met with rejection at all.

That's so sweet. I actually teared up when I was reading this. Only if everyone was like this.. can you imagine how much better the world would be?

Originally Posted by Rodri

I thought mix-tapes were the modern day love letters, or is that outdated now?
The trouble with love letters is trying to find a way to express how you feel about someone without it sounding like a cliche. Being original is almost impossible as there seems to be a certain structure and form to such romantic gestures that dictates substance. Indeed, the substance can quite often be of less importance than the gesture itself.

I see what you're saying, but that can also mean that giving a female flowers is also "cliche". It may be, but it's still one of the best feelings.
My ex asked to me out on V-Day by giving me flowers & a big teddy bear, & I do admit that's not very original. When I told my guy friend about this, he said it himself that it's very cliche.. but what he doesn't understand is how it made me feel. It's still very sweet, original or not.

**Brooke ♥♥** · 04-29-2010, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by SunTzu123

would you rather recieve a love letter or a text message

...Text message.

**AbstractAngel** · 04-29-2010, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by SunTzu123

would you rather recieve a love letter or a text message

To quote my brother lol "I'm old school and I'm postal, pen and paper always soothes me"

**Herr Ritter** · 04-29-2010, 09:17 PM

I found myself a little shocked that today's society would consider a text message a love letter. As the majority of physical text messages which classify as sms mail are limited to 160 characters it is not possible to portray one's feelings, even in the broken text which is often accepted as english today. I might also add if you are using text talk to portray a message I find it hard to see the true feeling behind it, whether it was there or not.

That having been said on the occasions I have written a love letter to my wife I have always written it in longhand on paper or in a card. When my wife reads them it means even more to her then I feel because my normal handwriting is hardly legible even by my own eyes; so if she reads a letter that I slowly and carefully sculpted to portray to her my feelings even after all these years then she can see the effort I have truly put into it.

Anyone can type, go buy a pen and some paper.

(Before someone comments on my anyone can type comment that was a figurative statement and I do realize not all people are physically or mentally capable.)