Have you saved any love letters?

[IrishEyes]

Way back in the 1980's Angie Dickinson was on a very popular Chat show, there she met fellow guest Billy Connolly. It was her first encounter with him.
Billy's first appearance on US television was a flop, describing it on the chat show he said: "I was about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit." Angie Dickinson doubled up laughing, couldn't get it together for a good five minutes. What is it that's so funny about fart humour?

When it comes from Billy, I can understand it, not so much the words but his his voice and facial expression get you. I laugh at things he says that someone else saying it I may not. My Grand Daughter is young so bodily functions are funny to her yet once she herself gets embarrassed by it, it probably will stop. Most all kids laugh at those things.

 

[Babs2u]

The best and most prolific letter writer was my English boy friend. I didn't marry him so the letters had to go.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I spent an hour this afternoon looking for just ONE greeting card my wife gave me many years ago, that was my favorite, and never found it. She liked funny cards. That card had pictures on it of a comic looking woman wearing various hats and clothing throughout the years - and I cannot remember all the words, but I still remember the last line, "my hemlines may have varied, but I still love the man I married." I wish I could find it, but after going through a great big stack of her cards today, I don't think I can emotionally manage it again - maybe another time.

 

[Babs2u]

I spent an hour this afternoon looking for just ONE greeting card my wife gave me many years ago, that was my favorite, and never found it. She liked funny cards. That card had pictures on it of a comic looking woman wearing various hats and clothing throughout the years - and I cannot remember all the words, but I still remember the last line, "my hemlines may have varied, but I still love the man I married." I wish I could find it, but after going through a great big stack of her cards today, I don't think I can emotionally manage it again - maybe another time.

Great sentiment. Why don't you just print it out and save it somewhere special. That way you won't need to go searching again.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Great sentiment. Why don't you just print it out and save it somewhere special. That way you won't need to go searching again.

Sometimes I wonder why we save these things or if we should - because most of the time we don't look at them, then when we do, they bring us sadness. I still have tape recordings here of my wife and daughter talking. I listened to some about 3 years ago, but couldn't handle going through the rest of them.

 

[OregonGuy]

My significant other and I may be the only couple to REUSE are love letters ... here's how that came to be:

Jeff’s explanation of how he and Mary reunited.​

May 2021: My wife at the time, April, succumbed to cancer.

June 2021: I moved into an Assisted Living facility there in Las Vegas.

July 2021: I contracted pneumonia. While I was in the hospital I received a telephone call from my first wife, Mary. She had just been informed by one of our three sons that April had passed, and I was in the hospital. (Mary and I were married from 1963 to 1990 at which time I regret to say I divorced her due to no fault of hers … my selfish mid-life crisis.) Until she called me in the hospital, I had only seen her once when one of our sons married.

August 2021 to September 2021: Mary and I talked on the telephone weekly and rekindled our relationship. For her birthday (Sep 10th) I surprised her by sending her a copy of HER love letters I had saved 57 years.

October 2021: For my birthday she surprised me by sending me copies of MY love letters I had sent her 57 years ago! She then suggested I move in with her in Sandy, Oregon.

November 2021: I was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson’s. I am ambulatory, able to walk without a device and do not exhibit shaking and other symptoms of more advanced Parkinsonism. However, I have vision problems which preclude me from driving a car.

May 2022: I moved in with Mary.

May 2022 to October 2024: Mary, who never remarried and retains my last name, drives me to appointments, fixes meals, does laundry, etc. I am truly blessed.

We are married in Spirit but, for financial reasons, not in a financial sense.

 

[seadoug]

I think I only received love letters from my girlfriend in high school and after a bad break-up I threw them out. I've received loving messages from hubby in cards on special occasions. I have every one I've received over our 32 years.