Miss you messages for your husband

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. We miss you. The house runs, but it runs quieter and slightly worse, and everybody here has noticed. Everything is handled at this end, so don't worry about us, just miss us back. Come home safely, and soon. ❤️

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2. I miss you. Not dramatically, just constantly, in the gaps in the day where I'd normally say something to you about nothing. Hope you're eating properly and sleeping more than four hours. The rest can wait until you're back.

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3. I miss having someone to say nothing to in the evenings. That's the part nobody warns you about. I'm fine, the house is fine, and I'm counting down properly now, which means it's close enough to count. Come home.

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4. Your chair is currently being used as a shelf and nobody here is planning to move anything. Come home and reclaim it. I miss you, and I'm running out of people to be unreasonable at in the evenings. Hurry up about it.

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5. I made chai for two this morning without thinking about it and then stood there with the extra cup like an idiot. That's roughly how the week has gone. I miss you. Come back and take the second cup off my hands.

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6. We miss you. The house still runs, it just runs quieter and slightly worse, and everybody here has noticed. Everything is handled at this end, so don't worry about us, just miss us back. I miss having someone to say nothing to in the evenings, which is the part nobody warns you about. Come home safely, and soon.

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Writing your own

Lead with reassurance, then miss him. A man away from home reads a message from home for problems first. Tell him it is all fine in the opening line and he can actually receive the rest of it instead of scanning for what is wrong.

Give him a picture of the ordinary. What the kids said, what broke, what the neighbour did — being included in the small news is the part that stops a posting feeling like exile, and it does more than any sentence about missing him.