Love messages

Love messages for your girlfriend

The hard part is not the feeling, it is saying it on an ordinary Tuesday without sounding like a song lyric. These six are written for that: short, plain, and specific enough that she will know you wrote them.

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Six messages you could actually send

Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.

  1. I don't say this nearly enough, so here it is in writing: I love you. You're the first person I want to tell anything to, good or bad, and that hasn't changed once. Thank you for making my very ordinary days feel like something.

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  2. There's no occasion for this and nothing is wrong. I just spent most of today thinking about you and decided you should know. You've made me a calmer and a slightly better person than I was. I love you, and I'm in no hurry about it. ❤️

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  3. I'm not good at saying the big things out loud, so I'm writing instead. I love you. Not for one reason I could point to, but for the whole of it, including the parts you're self-conscious about. Especially those, if I'm honest.

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  4. I love you, and I've accepted I'll never win an argument about which restaurant. You laugh at your own jokes before you finish them, you're always slightly late, and I wouldn't change a single one of those things about you.

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  5. I keep thinking about that evening we spent walking around with nowhere to be, talking about nothing at all. Nothing happened and it's still one of my favourite days. That's what you do to ordinary time. I love you for it.

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  6. There's no occasion for this and nothing is wrong, which is exactly why I wanted to send it. I love you. You're the first person I want to tell anything to, good or bad, and that hasn't changed once since the beginning. You've made me calmer and a bit kinder than I was. I hope you never have to guess about any of it.

Writing your own

Name one thing only you would notice. Beautiful and amazing are what a stranger would say; the way she says haan haan when she is not listening, the fact that she cannot sleep unless the fan is on, that she still calls her mother twice a day — those are what make a line unmistakably yours.

Then stop. The instinct is to keep going until it is a paragraph, but a love note is not an argument that needs building. Two sentences she reads three times beat six she skims once, and the card gives you a signature line anyway, so you do not have to land a grand finish.

Write it once, properly, and let it arrive as a sealed envelope rather than another blue tick.

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It arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.

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