Old love letters... - Page 3

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

No one else should read what was private for you. Unless you want them to. If that is the case, you can give it to them now.

RazorSharp · ‎02-20-2016

I have a letter from my first love who framed it, and presented it to me when we said goodbye to each other. We met when we were both living in NYC for the summer when we were both 21. It was an intense, whirlwind romance, and we both had to go back to our own Ives, and opposite coasts, when the summer ended. I keep the framed letter in a large Tupperware bin with many other mementos. Whenever I go into that bin to find something, I come across it and become overwhelmed with emotions and memories. I feel very lucky to have had that experience, and I wouldn't mind at all if someone else read it after I've gone.

lulu2 · ‎03-09-2010

I have neighbors who have been married for 63 years. He suffers from dementia. Despite the fact they have live-in care for him, she still waited on him hand and foot. About a year ago he was going through an old trunk filled with his WWII things. Apparently he was engaged while he was in the war. His wife did not know this. He came across the old love letters the former lady in his life wrote him while he was overseas. He told his wife he found their old lovers letters. She was SHOCKED. He began calling her by the other woman's name. No matter how many times she corrected him, he still called her by that name.

He is still at home but my neighbor told me she felt betrayed and has become bitter. There are 5 children and 9 adult grandchildren. The family dynamics have changed dramatically not because of the dementia but because of those letters.

Some things should remain private.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@Jasmine19 wrote:
@Mistreatedbycs wrote:
I have an entire box of love letters exchanged between my mom and dad when they were dating.

I wish I would of put them in the crypt when my mom passed, I read and few and smiled and then realized how so much in love they were.

What do you think I should do with them?

I had a glass box made to measure to hold my parents WW2 love letters.

This is so nice. After my parents died I found where my Mom had kept all their letters to each other during the war , but I could not bring myself to read them so I burned them because I felt they were just something that was their most private business, and should not be shared with anyone, not even me. My parents always kept their private business very private and this felt like an intrusion to me.

lavendar · ‎03-10-2010

I sorted through and kept certain ones. I have two plastic shoeboxes.

I wonder if anyone gets love letters anymore. It's probably all email.

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

@lavendar wrote:

I wonder if anyone gets love letters anymore. It's probably all email.

@lavendar

Or text messages w/a bunch of heart emojies or the xoxox symbols.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I still have 2 letters from my high school crush; he died in a car accident in the fall of his senior year. They are nothing more than innocent stories about his summer adventures and how he adjusted to life after his parents divorce, but I remember how special those letters made me feel, and how crushed I was when he died.