The following page is full of love letters written during the course of a marriage for the benefit of someones wife so please feel free to scroll through until you find something that gives you inspiration for your own particular situation.
My Beautiful Lynda,
Hello my precious wife, the joy of my heart, my soul mate and only love. I know this may seem odd to you, getting an actual letter from me rather than a quick text or email to share the moment’s news, but I feel a great need to unburden myself of some rather frightening feelings I’ve been experiencing. Don’t worry, there is nothing really wrong, not really, I just need to let you know something before it does become a problem.
We have had eleven incredible years together, and I have a beautiful vision of us growing old side by side, watching our future grandchildren enter the world and find the comfort of a loving family to support them. You are my only love, the only one I’ve really ever had, and I know you will always be that to me. With the birth of each of our lovely children, I have watched you with deep pride and love as you instinctively knew just how to shelter and love our children so that they are secure, healthy and happy in this difficult world. Our family brings me such great joy, but mixed in with it is a growing emptiness, a hollow spot in my heart. Oh, this is going to sound so selfish and typical of a self-centered male, but I miss being the focus of your attention. Intellectually, I fully understand that the children need you right now more than I do, but emotionally, I am to the point where I am getting sadder with each passing day.
Remember the bright blue balloon that little Kati carried with us the entire day at the art festival? Then, late that afternoon, the balloon slipped off her little wrist and floated up into the sky. I stood there watching it rise slowly into the clear sky and since it was blue and the sky was blue the balloon seemed to just disappear. Well, it struck me that that is exactly how I feel. I am slowly just disappearing, fading into the background. I was held close for a very long time, then somehow the grip loosened and now I’m just at the whim of the breeze, blowing me gently away from you. The one difference I saw that day was that a whole family watched intently as the balloon drifted away with one of them even crying for its return. When I look at our situation, I don’t think anyone even realizes that they are setting me adrift, and certainly, no one is crying for my return.
Of course, I realize that you and the kids are not even aware of what I am feeling, until now I guess. So, of course, you are not crying as I drift away because you don’t know that I feel like I have been emotionally abandoned. Maybe those are too strong of words, I know you love me and here I am right here with all of you, but I just don’t feel like I am wholly present. Does this make sense? Now that I have unburdened myself, I feel rather silly. Maybe I have just imagined all this. We’ll talk about it some evening after the kids go to bed. Know you have all my love and I am not blaming you at all, nor am I going anywhere but home to you!
With All My Love Forever,
[Name Withheld to Protect the Innocent]
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To my dearest wife
I treasure the day that I met you, I was in love with you from the first moment I laid eyes on you. Never will I forget your graceful beauty as you walked across the field. You had no idea that I spent that entire day willing myself to speak to you. I’m sure you could smell my fear as I tripped over my words just to ask your name. At that time, never could I have imagined that you would be my wife.
It has been three short years since we became husband and wife, and my love for you has grown stronger each day. I would first like to thankyou for being the number one source of inspiration in my life; we all know what you have been through over this last year, and the strength and the courage that you have shown has been admirable. I have not met anyone who can bear defeat with a smile on their face.
Your wisdom about life is what makes you able to bare the kind of crosses that you do; but when you speak, I could sit and listen to you forever. I always long for one of our conversations to hear your views on this thing that we call life, I have learned so much from you my sweet wife and I thankyou for that from the bottom of my heart.
I thank you for giving me hope, before we met I was cynical about everything, life, love and the future. You have taught me to see life through your eyes, your vision makes me happy, the way you love life makes me love life, the way you have such a positive outlook on everything makes me do the same. I am a better person because of you, you have made me into the person that I am today, and I will be eternally grateful to you always.
I love you more than words can ever say.
Your husband
[Name Withheld to Protect the Innocent]
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Dear Rita,
I’m sitting here in the Atlanta airport thinking about our 10th anniversary next week. I can’t wait to see you – though I’ve only been out on the road this time for a week, it seems like forever. And it’s hard to believe we’ve been married 10 years already – it feels like yesterday, maybe because we still love each other just as much as we did on our wedding day.
I want you to know that that wasn’t true in my first 2 marriages. Of course, I was in love with both Joan when she and I were married, and with Linda too, but it faded pretty fast, and having a child with each one didn’t really help. Yes, we thought it would, but what actually happened was it held us together far too long, for the sake of the child, you know.
You and I are special in so many ways, and I know we’ve talked about how great it would have been to have a child together – my vasectomy years ago was insurance against having another child with Linda. But we both know that because there’s no child in the house, we have been able to concentrate on us, and to make our love grow and blossom rather than die from neglect and boredom. I still get excited just thinking about seeing you, touching you, hearing your voice and seeing your smiling face. It wasn’t that way even with my high school sweetheart.
We also have so much more in common than I ever had with any other women, it really is incredible. We play guitar and sing our own songs together, we spend most of every day I’m not on the road together, we have the same intolerance for materialistic, vain, superficial people, and we both hate sports. I’ve even been able to get over the fact that you hate Indian food, because there’s so many things that we do share, a few differences just don’t matter – harmony is better when it’s almost but not quite perfect, as we know.
Anyway, I’m telling you things you already know, so I’ll stop now. But the message I wanted to get across is that I love you like no other woman, and you are the most important person in my life, ever!
Happy Anniversary, love you always, see you soon,
[Name Withheld to Protect the Innocent]
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