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Does adding "PS I Love You" mean it is a romantic love letter?

by Carol Thornton

PS I love you! I bet you have seen it on the bottom of a letter given to you or maybe you wrote it. It seems just like it is a postscript or an afterthought, doesn't it? A love letter needs to have a little bit more romance than just a PS.

Gerald Swank and Gerard Butler star in the new movie PS I Love You which suggest a number of different ways that you can express your love and it just shows that love letters don't need to be written on paper either! Have you ever thought of making a celebration cake and sending it with a message on a tape recorder?

Looking back over the centuries we know huge numbers of people have spent their time carefully crafting letters of love to their special partner. Have a look at my website LoveLettersCentral.com and see over 125 lovingly romantic letters written by famous and not so famous people. If you consider that letters only a few years would have needed to be written using a quill or feather dipped in ink to scratch the words on to parchment paper. Mistakes would have had to be carefully erased or starting the whole letter all over again. Nowadays we are more likely just to press the delete button on the keyboard. Yet huge numbers of those love letters of yesterday still exist today kept by the recipient possibly tied up in ribbon and carefully saved in a box or draw.

Are you doing something spectacular to show your loved one that you want them? Or is writing that simple phrase PS I Love You as an afterthought at the end of a letter or love note enough for you? Would you like to know how to make the most of your romantic thoughts to really impress your loved one and know they will treasure it?

You will find 125 romantic love letters on the LoveLettersCentral.com which can used by yourself to write or compose a romantic note. Each one of the love letters can be adapted to suit your circumstances just change a few words as appropriate.

Did you know that one of my readers took a love letter straight off the site rewrote parts of it to include the color of her boyfriend's eyes, his warm cuddly and muscular arms etc and then wrote it out with one sentence on each of 10 sheets of paper. She then put them into separate envelopes with dates on them and handed them to her husband just as he was about to leave on a 10 day business trip with instructions to open each envelope only on the day marked on the outside. You can guess how much pleasure her husband had in getting that love letter each day and piecing it all together just before travelling back home to her.

I suspect that just building up her love letter each day he was away that he might have been in a bit of a rush to get home to her particularly if she made the last couple of them just a bit more passionate and explicit then the beginning of the week.

Can you think of any other way you can use a love letter? It need not be written down it could be taped (audio or video) but it should be expressing deep loving romantic feelings from you to someone else. I will set up a special prize for the person who sends me the most novel, the most interesting and/or the most romantic way of saying I love you.

If you submit an entry to YouTube with a link back to our LoveLettersCentral.com website please write and let us know where to find your romantic love letter video so we can see as well as your very special person. Don't forget to let the friends of your special one know about it so they can go and watch it as well. Make them jealous!

We obviously want to use the very best entries received on our website and by entering you show you are giving permission to do so.

Carol.

The concept of setting up this competition for the most romantic love letter sent in a unusual or novel way was inspired while watching the romantic comedy film PS I Love You. Carol Thornton who designed and pulled together a large collection of romantic love letters for the LoveLettersCentral.com website had been told by so many visitors "I wish I could get my boyfriend to do something really romantic for me" so thought why not pull together all the ideas into one place to help inspire them.

Published October 4th, 2007

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