| Misti | I've been writing love letters since elementary school. I actually dictated a love letter to my best friend Amy when we were in fifth grade because she had a new calligraphy set and she was really good at it. Actually, it was a hate letter because the guy I puppy loved (Adam Finley...a tennis playing brainiac...he knew how to navigate a Commodore 64...swoooon)didn't love me back. I looked in Amy's dictionary for the worst name I could find. I called Adam a "chinchilla" in the letter. I think it's a type of rodent. I don't remember the response...he probably laughed and made fun of me with his friends. I wrote dozens of letters to Matt Hale, my first "real" crush", when I was a teenager. Never sent them. Wrote songs and stories about us as King Matthew and Queen Velvet. He never saw those, either. Fell in love for real when I was seventeen with one Chase Childers. He could publish a very thick book of all the letters and poems I've sent him. My love for Chase spanned the better part of a decade. He still has those letters and every other thing I ever sent him, or he did the last time I checked a couple of years ago. I've sent love letters to other guys and I guess they didn't love them because I didn't get any back. I corresponded with my husband via snail mail before we met in the flesh. He sent me about five letters a day. I sent him a bit less than that because I wasn't very creative with saying,"I love you, too, and can't wait to meet you so that I can give my right hand a break." I was used to writing crap like,"I know you don't realize this yet, but we are soul mates and when you're tired of playing the field, I'm the gal for you." |
| Athena | Love letters are wonderful... I used to write them for my sweetie all the time and I think he liked them. But he's been a butthead lately so he hasn't gotten any for a while. Needs to straighten up and fly right before he'll get one again. |
| tj holland | Everyday is a love letter. All day long. Given with no expectation of returns and received with awe. |
| Star of David | I absolutely love writing letters... I choose the paper according to the person I am writing to and start off the first letter of the first word with a calligraphy stencil, make it quite large and fill it in in a different colour to that I am writing in. I change the margins and sometimes start paras in a way that the rest of the para lines are indented instead of the start. I sometimes print borders as well! I am a letter writing maniac. Even if I e-mail a person regularly, I love to send them letters occassionaly as well telling them how special they are because letters lift you up and make you smile. So far, all the people I have written to, meaning those I love, have been totally surprised and happy... Letters are such a beautiful thing. |
| Kirk | Nah. We're never apart. Or there's email. My handwriting is awful anyway. And surprisingly I'm not into all the mushy stuff as you might guess. |
| ThoughtFull | Wouldn't we be a silly bunch of writers if we didn't write love letters? Actually, I have slacked off in this last relationship cause not too many men have appreciated my sacchrine soaked starry eyed ramblings...so off to the Blender I went. |
| frozencharlotte | I wrote 'I love you' in red lipstick on the mirror once. Drew a heart around it. Hard as hell to clean off. |
| muryan | You know, of all the times I've written love letters, it was always just to write them. I never gave them to the person. I did write a poem to a guy as a gentle way to end our "fling" he wrote me a great one back. So I guess it was well received. In fact, I think I'm going to write him a love letter to see if we can start the fling up again. Great survey question! |
| RennieLorca | Yes. I wrote the first worst boyfriend volumes. Got lots of writer's cramp. Wrote lots of poems I don't have copies of...and don't know if he still does. He actually wrote me back. How he found the time with all the cheating and lying, I'll never know. I bought a typewriter and composed poems I never showed boyfriends. I married. My husband did enough writing for the two of us, but not romance. Wasn't in me to compete, since he was competitive creatively. Then I worked briefly for lawyers, where I learned not to put things in writing as far as relationships. I exercise real feelings in writing, don't journal, have some fun with what I write from a number of relationships. Pen to paper, or more than a pen -- no. Gonna take lots of trust for me to sign my name to more than love letters in the sand now ..... Rennie |
| bp | no |
| cryingshame58 | first love letters I wrote were to my parents...always signed them with X's and O's and always received applause and affection...later, i remember passing love notes in highschool and always got a kiss and a hug from my love after I passed it to him...it was embarrassing when the teacher would grab it and read it in class...<blush> |
| Madi | Yeah.... nothing like finding or sending in-the-mail, in-the-lunch sack, under-the-pillow or in-lipstick love notes. The favorite love notes I've written in pen were on piano scores, slowly and carefully inking every little sharp, flat, and stem. I guess I've never thought about how they were received because I was so busy enjoying the giving. |
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| Injun Joe | ugh...time for new query |
| Chances | I have written one or two. He held onto them long after I wished he'd thrown them away. |
| Chances | AND I have never actually got a love letter myself. hmmmph. |
| Chances | Writing I love you in the sand is much better. |