[do] How to Write a Love Letter
Psst… Hey you, mister, I have a secret for you. What if I told you that for 50 cents a week, you could make your woman feel like the queen of Sheba? For four bits, your wife will parade through her office or PTO meeting and make the girls who got a dozen roses and a formulaic greeting card feel like schlubs. Here’s the secret….
Buy a stamp.
Wait, what? You heard me! Buy a stamp. There’s a little more to it than that, but not much. The art of the love letter is dying, and it’s a shame. Our grandparents couldn’t shoot a telephone call, SMS, MMS, e-mail or IM to their loves when they were apart. Your grandpa took a minute and sat at his desk or in the mess hall and really thought about your grandma. In turn, your grandma watched for the postman to find out where her man was and what he was doing. Can you imagine your significant other waiting for a letter from you?
Here are the steps I take:
- Take a minute in the most quiet environment you can find and really think about what you want to say. You can’t back up and rethink once pen is set to paper, so have an idea before you start. If the letter is lengthy, I’ve even been known to rock it third-grade style and write a rough draft.
- Take your time. If your handwriting sucks, this can be fixed most of the time just by slowing down. This should be art. Your letter may be something that, if you’re lucky, she’ll keep in a drawer to show your grandkids what a softy you are. So slow down and think out each letter, word and sentence.
- Allow yourself to be a little flowery in your descriptions and thoughts. Guys, this isn’t a technical document. Shakespeare didn’t say “you’re HAWT,” he said, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Sylvia Plath didn’t say “you’re cool,” she said, “What did my hands do before they held you?” I’m not saying that you need to be over the top, but get a little creative.
- A spritz of your cologne to seal the envelope will go a long way. When your significant other walks to the mailbox and smells you, things will go very well for you later. Trust me.
Do you have a way that you woo the wife on the cheap? Does your girlfriend melt at the mere mention of your romantic prowess? Help me out in the comments.
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Yes!!! I completely and whole-heartedly agree with this article. The last guy I was with, we wrote letters back and forth constantly (granted, we were long distance)but besides that factor, the letters seemed so much more special in between our texting and phonecalls. Along with that we made an agreement that any gift we sent to each other had to be made by us.
There is no greater feeling than receiving a letter/note/post-it/whatever that was personally written and just for you. My heart melted every time I received one. :) His little doodles in the margins and side comments from when he made a grammatical error or whatever added to the sweetness of it all.
Although we’re not together anymore, he and I still are very close and oftentimes look back at the happy memories through the letters we sent.
My husband is very romantic and I have a whole notebook of letters he’s given me. Once he gave me a dozen roses and on each stem was a little note that said one thing he liked about me followed by a couple lines. It was very romantic and something I won’t forget! Another time he put in a note and a bag of candy in the overinght deposit box at work, that was funny & sweet when I helped open the vault the next morning. As the years go by, it’s not the phone calls, cards, or even gifts that you remember, it’s the little things that go a long way to show you they care, these are what you remember.
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