HT Write a Love Letter?

[SkyyAngel]

What do you guys and gals out there do when you write a love letter to your SO/spouse??

Any other super-romantic things that you have done for them (or they for you) from a long distance (care packages or anything like that?)

I can only say "I Love you" and "I miss you" so many times before it starts to lose it's meaning which I don't want it to do.

Any ideas on what I can do for my SO? I won't be seeing him again until April and in October-ish later this year he gets sent off to basic.

Ideas I've got floating around already are:

Using quotes from famous love letters/plays/etc (romeo and juliet).

Making a small journal (with pics cut out from magazines and hand drawn) of our first meeting and first week spent together.

Trying my hand at poetry maybe?

 

[Eilan]

I like your ideas so far.

You can never go wrong with Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a good place to start. I also like his Sonnets. My favorite sonnet is #116 (it's about unconditional love).

Another poet you could check out is Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Perhaps you could make a video letter? It doesn't even have to be naughty! Unless, of course, you want it to be.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

 

[nelbuts5256]

Just write it from your heart. Use your own words and feelings. May not sound as good to you but to the person you are writing too it will sound like Shakespear.

 

[Weird Harold]

I can only say "I Love you" and "I miss you" so many times before it starts to lose it's meaning which I don't want it to do.

Any ideas on what I can do for my SO? I won't be seeing him again until April and in October-ish later this year he gets sent off to basic.

I've never been all that "romantic" but after 21 years in the USAF, I think I've got a fair idea of what kind of letters GIs like to receive.

First, perfume your letters -- You can send him a grocery list for your dog, and if its perfumed, he'll treasure it.

Second, don't get flowery or literary. Romantic quotes and passages from Shakespeare aren't going to be as well received as simple honest ccounts of the things you have done since you last wrote and how much more you would have enjoyed it if he could have been there.

Third, a Journal/Scrapbook with pictures is a good idea for once he gets past basic and technical school to a permanent assignment -- Keep the letters short enough with one or two pictures that he can easily keep in his wallet or pocket during Basic and Tech School.

Once he gets to a permanent assignment where he'll have more room for "stuff," A scrapbook page or two with pictures of you doing everyday things -- or PG13 level sexy things -- that he can add to a scrapbook would be great. Keep the sexy pictures to PG13 so he can A) show you off to his friends and B) avoid possible legal problems with overseas assignments.

Finally, and most important, be yourself -- your SO is in love with YOU, not with Shakespeare, Chaucer, or the Bronte sisters. He's interested inwhat you're up to and what you're feeling. It isn't necessary to say, "I love You" or "I miss you" more thnonce or twice per letter, but a whole page of "I Love you. I miss you" repeated over and over once in a while wouldn't be entirely out of place either. Mostly you can show him how much you love him and miss him by how his absence affects your daily life.

Your SO may be different from all of the people I served with, and I certainly didn't see every love letter the people I served with, but I had hundreds of perfumed letters waved under my nose to make me jealous (because I seldom got mail) and listened to hundreds of boring mundane details of daily life read aloud around a lump in the throat and through tears in the eyes from missing loved ones.

 

[SkyyAngel]

Wow... thank you Harold.

My SO is going into the AF as well. He says that after tech school, there's no way he's gonna be single... and that I better prepare for a name change. < sigh >

I was going to send the journal now... before basic. And while he's at basic I do plan on writing him everyday (making him feel special and making everyone else jealous) perfumed of course.

And I understand what you're saying about being in love with me and not Shakespere, Chaucer, or Bronte.... but I think he might enjoy it every once and awhile (not every letter.. just one or two)... he's big into the SCA and the total medievel thing so it would at least bring a smile to his face because he would actually KNOW where it came from.

 

[Weird Harold]

My SO is going into the AF as well. He says that after tech school, there's no way he's gonna be single... and that I better prepare for a name change. < sigh >

I was going to send the journal now... before basic. And while he's at basic I do plan on writing him everyday (making him feel special and making everyone else jealous) perfumed of course.

... he's big into the SCA and the total medievel thing so it would at least bring a smile to his face because he would actually KNOW where it came from.

Getting married won't stop the separations -- Unccompanied tours and temporary duty are like to be fairly common and family usually can't go along on those.

Just remember that during Basic he won't have access to most of his personal possessions or much space to store letters and pictures.

If he's a serious SCA type, he probably will enjoy some convoluted "courtly love" letters. I'd let his reaction guide you on the frequency, but keep those letters separate from the modern real-world letters.

Perhaps send a seperate letter from an alternate SCA persona of yours once or twice a week to HIS SCA persona. Or even a whole court of SC personas if your imagination is up to it. He might enjoy getting letters from "Lady Hightower" one day and one from "Nell of Shanks Tavern" the next with an occasional missive from "Lady Hightower's handmaiden, Gwen."

You could be baudy, prim and proper, or flirtatious as your mood suits, but don't get so involved in the role-play that you forget to build the real world relationship too.

 

[SkyyAngel]

Oh I know about the deployments and such. I was just mentioning it cause it makes me happy.

That's a neat idea about my SCA persona writing his... lol... I know he'd get a kick out of it. Thanks!!