Can you imagine proposing to someone in a letter? If you read our Love Letters: Love & Poets you know that is exactly how Robert Browning proposed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and today, we are fortunate to feature a proposal in our continuing series, Letters of Love. The proposal was actually sent in a stamped envelope from one state to another. The young lovers met through a mutual friend on a school break and corresponded through email, text messages and snail mail for months with a weekend spent together now and again.
Will You Marry Me?
Dear Elena,
It’s late here, I just finished the last paper that I will ever have to write. Exams are next week and even with the weekend of cramming in front of me, I can’t wait to see you in ten days. I have a big red circle on the calendar. I won’t be graduating with the 4.0 I wanted, but the 3.8 is not shabby. I won’t get the results for my LSATs for another few weeks and I’ve decided not to worry about it.
In our last conversation, we were talking about the summer. I know you have another year of school and you were thinking about summer classes to get ahead of the curve, but I have another proposal for you. I’d like to spend the summer together. We could go home to see our parents for a couple of weeks and then maybe take a trip to the Caribbean, there are some great deals my mom can get for us.
I know you are probably sitting there and thinking about your majors and your GPA and the classes that you want and need to take. I know that carrying a double major is hard. But I want to have this summer together, before I go to Law School and before you start on your senior year. I want us to be able to talk about our plans and to share our dreams. I want to do it without a cell phone pressed to my ears or typing on a keyboard. I want to be able to bring you flowers and I want to sit across a table from you and hold your hand while we eat dinner. I want to go to sleep with you and I want to wake up with you.
Elena, I want you to marry me.
You don’t have to answer now, you can have the whole summer to think about it. But spend the summer with me and let me persuade you. You can give me your answer next weekend, when I’m there. I love you and I can’t wait to see you.
David
Letters of Love
You write these letters of love for the ones you love. Do you have a letter of love that you want to write to your spouse? Whether they are here in the states, sleeping next to you night after night or far away in another state or another country. Do you have a letter of love that you would like to share?
Letters of Love are a part of our 14 Days of Romance here in the Marriage Blog, we hope you enjoy them!
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