Writing Love Letters

By Kristina Sossa on July 6, 2014

Over the past month, my once fairy tale perfect relationship has been on extremely thin ice. David and I had a situation where his parents got involved and now they believe we are too immature for a relationship. They have kept us from communicating for almost the whole month until David used his iPad for texting.

Emotions have been all over the place. At first we were going to make it through, but now he fears that his parents will be our demise. I had always counted on him to be the romantic one in our relationship, the one who would tell me everything would be fine and make all the romantic gestures. When I saw how afraid he was, I realized that it was my turn to support our relationship. I felt bad to find out that I had not been as involved in our relationship as I should have been.

Of course I told him that we would get through this and that he needed to trust me; I made up a plan to only talk once a week to get us back on track. There needed to be more, though. There needed to be an element of romance within all of the strategy. Then it hit me: what did Big do when he lost Carrie? Wrote love letters! Well, love emails. I know, I know–it is just a movie, but I actually love the idea. I cannot tell you the last time I wrote him a love letter, if I ever have.

So starting this week, I will send him one love letter on Sundays when we talk. This week I wrote about the most monumental moments in our relationship. Next week will be something totally different. I am just ashamed that I assumed that David should be the one responsible for support in this rough time for us. What am I so busy doing that I can’t remind him of why we should stay strong? I was so wrong to expect him to keep the faith in our relationship all on his own. A relationship should be two people working together and inspiring each other every day. There should be an equal amount of support for the relationship put out by both, and I was slacking on my part.

Only time will tell how this problem unfolds–here’s to hoping it ends well. Until then, I plan to remind him why we have been such a strong couple for almost two years now. I have been giving him all the hard work lately, so now it’s time for me to take the load off. 

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