Do You Hate Writing "Love" On Cards?

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same here.
am dont understand the use of 'dear',and also do not write 'happy' as it's not something am understand either,have very little stuff written on cards.
am buy the best,glittery looking animal cards so the pictures would probably distract from whatever crap is written inside anyway.

When I say 'I love you' to people I don't feel that I actually do. It's just words to me. When I do feel love for someone it's harder to say because I'm not sure if that person feels the same way and to save myself the embarrassment I don't say it.
As for cards I draw a heart as if saying love.
Actually the last card I gave to someone I loved was a drawing showing the two of us and a heart balloon. If that doesn't say I love you then what does?
I don't think he understood the hidden message because two days later it was over between us.

I grew up calling my parents different names than Mom or Dad. . .I refer to them as "your wife/your husband" now, it's so bizarre but I've always been this way. With my ex-husband I had to say his name to myself thousands of times until it became totally meaningless before I could ever call him that, and even then it was rare.

Eh. Mine always made noises that I never loved him, when I DID all sorts of things to show love, for an entire 11 years. The ones that can't see your own language for what it is in that time, well they aren't worth it.

Can't stand it. Not sure I really love anyone in this world. I do it for people I am supposed to.

LostInSpace, I'm sure just as you can say with love, you can also say with care, (rather than with caring). Although it might be construde in the careful sense rather than in the caring sense.

With affection hardly sounds like the sentiment I would express towards a friend, neither does, sincerley. It soujds to cold.

So I'm left with writing with love, or just Love, or writng nothing and just my name which always seems rather abrupt to me.

Shane, you are a total mensch. (Do you know what that word means or should I explain?)
Love, Neshama

Explain it. I love stories!
Love, Shane

I've found the word love is used too loosely. I've looked up the word in the dictionary.
Love:


So many people have said that they love me, but I don't think they really do according to the dictionary. At least the feeling is not mutual. I know when the feeling is right.

Last edited by Moop on 10 Dec 2008, 9:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have no problem writing the word on cards to my family when I give them a birthday card.


Love, Beth.



At least I had no problem writing it just now.

"Mensch" is a Yiddish word. It's literal meaning is "man," but like most Yiddish words, its substantive meaning is very rich and very hard to translate. Here's my try; A mensch is a person who is decent when he doesn't have to be, who does something kind because it feels like the right thing to do. A mensch is a person with a good heart and a good mind, who doesn't trade in one for the other. A mensch is the kind of person who, when he sees a blind man selling pencils, gives the blind man the money, but doesn't take the pencils.

Get the idea?

Love,
Neshama

To family I have not problem with it, but to anyone else, eve close friends.. I just sign my name and thats it.

I never write love in letters or cards. My wife does cards and I generally try to use email to communicate.

I always send with this format:

YourName-

This is a message.

MyName

I don't say it to people though other than my wife and kids. I feel very guilty about not saying it to my parents but it feels extremely weird to say it.

Once on the phone a relative of my wife's said "love you" at the end of a phone conversation and I froze. I was silent a bit and mumbled something and hung up. Very awkward.

Fortunately she has never said it to me again.

Can I ask what it is you think is meant by, "Love, So-n-so"?
When I write it it's as though I'm wishing them love in their life, not that I love them.
Well, that's how I think of it......

I totally agree

I usually just sign my name at the bottom.

same for me, yes. more when I was younger though. The entire post I agree with