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Wow! It’s Wednesday! Bye-Bye Love/Hello Break-up!
Apparently less people than ever are writing love letters while the break-up letter is flourishing quite well — especially on the internet.
Now, I received a physical love letter once and was broken up with by email once. But I’ve never sent a love letter, physical or electronic. And I’ve never dumped anyone in writing — not because I’m a nice person or anything, but because back when I was dating I tended to do all my dumping with unreturned phone calls or rather awkwardly in person.
And I’ve just always been too self-conscious to go on about how much I love someone for more than a sentence or two. A paragraph if I’m feeling particularly sentimental that day – hormones and/or red wine are usually involved when an entire paragraph is achieved.
Still, it makes me sad that the love letter has lost its luster in these modern times. Many of you that have been to our home might have noticed the artwork that CH made out of love letters that his father sent to his first wife while a soldier. That’s one of my favorite CH pieces.
But how about you? Any love letters or break-up missives in your past?
Read more about the dying art of love letter writing here.
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Years ago I was welcomed home after a late shift at work to a freak-out letter from my fiance saying he couldn't get married & was going away for a few days. The date was February 13th. I'm not really into Valentine's Day, but really, dude. Wait until the 15th. And since we lived together, this is where a conversation would have been appropriate.
But after that breakup, the next guy would send me postcards. That was really cute.
Yeah, romance has taken different forms. Email, Facebook/MySpace, e-cards….the sentiments can be sweet, but the gesture to take a pen to even a mere piece of notebook paper is now considered something of an art form and grand gesture. Sad….
Years ago I was welcomed home after a late shift at work to a freak-out letter from my fiance saying he couldn't get married & was going away for a few days. The date was February 13th. I'm not really into Valentine's Day, but really, dude. Wait until the 15th. And since we lived together, this is where a conversation would have been appropriate.
But after that breakup, the next guy would send me postcards. That was really cute.
Yeah, romance has taken different forms. Email, Facebook/MySpace, e-cards….the sentiments can be sweet, but the gesture to take a pen to even a mere piece of notebook paper is now considered something of an art form and grand gesture. Sad….