Chocolates melt, and flowers wilt, but a heartwarming love letter is forever. So get out your finest stationery, favorite pen, and open your heart and mind to warm thoughts about your sweetheart.Â
Write your honey a romantic love letter dripping with passion and heartfelt sentiment.Â
What is a Love Letter?Â
A love letter is a heartfelt expression of your love in written form. It is tender and intimate, with careful attention to the details. The love letter fusses and dotes over your beloved. It expresses your love in a sentimental and vulnerable way.
A love letter’s purpose is this: to make your special someone feel loved, adored, and cherished.Â
What a Love Letter is Not
Love letters aren't about thanking or appreciating what your beloved does or achieves. A love letter focuses on your deep feelings for your beloved. Express what it is about them that stirs your loving feelings and how they make you feel. Make your loved one feel adored for who they are, not for what they do or achieve. Â
The love letter is personal and intimate.  It’s not about tasks, activities, values or shared interests. It is about tender feelings and softer emotions.
How to Begin
First, set the mood. Get in the mindset of reflecting on the one you love and let your feelings for your sweetie well up. Closing your eyes and daydreaming are other ways to bring up special memories of when you fell in love or tender shared moments. Playing your favorite love songs or looking at old pictures can help, too.Â
After focusing on these thoughts, memories, and emotions, jot them down. You can mention them in your love letter.Â
Write an Endearing Salutation
A love letter is personal and intimate, starting with the salutation. The opening should convey how special your loved one is to you. Here are a few examples:
For My Beloved __________
My Darling
Sweetheart
My Precious Love
My Handsome Husband
To the Love of My Life
My Beautiful Wife
BeautifulÂ
The Body of the Love Letter
The body of the love letter is where you open your heart and let your loved one have a look inside. It’s the part of the letter where you express an outpouring of emotion. Be mushy, gushy, sappy, and over-the-top.Â
In the letter's body, consider including a favorite poem or song lyrics that have special meaning in your relationship or express how you feel about your loved one.Â
Include romantic memories and what you love about your sweetheart. Be both candid and specific. However you choose to express it, it should be heartfelt.Â
You can share what you like about your life with them, how their presence has enhanced it, and speak about your hopes for your future together.Â
The Closing
Like the salutation, the closing words should also endear. It should be tender and heartfelt. Here are some examples:
Forever yours
Adoringly yours
Yours always
With all my love
I love you
KissesÂ
My heart belongs to you always
Or, create your own special and endearing way to close your beautiful love letter to your dear one.
The Extras
Don't forget to date your love letter! It will be treasured forever, so dating the letter is important.
You might consider including a small trinket, a meaningful photo or sealing it with a kiss!
Remember the letter doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be heartfelt, sincere and stir your loved one's softer emotions.