A Letter to the One You Love, Sent to Your Future

The most extravagant thing you can do with love is keep this exact feeling intact. The sweetest things said out loud fade into the everyday — but put them in a letter, addressed to your first anniversary, the night before your wedding, or an ordinary day ten years from now, and they become proof, delivered to your future selves, of what this love looked like at the start. People here have written through the hardest stretch of long distance, to "the us who finally live in the same city." One person wrote down every nervous heartbeat the night before proposing, addressed to the couple's tenth anniversary. Others simply want to tell a future partner: I love you so much right now, and I hope we're still together when this arrives. Nobody knows the ending when these letters are sealed — and that's exactly what makes them moving. It's a promise made in earnest, mailed to the future. Below are letters couples chose to share. If there's someone on your mind, write this moment down.

Ideas to get you started

  • Capture your ordinary days: the restaurant you always go back to, the little habit of theirs that gets you, the last thing that made you both laugh. That's what the future wants most.
  • Write the thank-you or the apology you've never managed to say out loud. A letter makes it easier — and more solemn.
  • Pick a delivery date that means something: your anniversary, their birthday, or a future the two of you have promised each other.
  • Or each write one and swap — schedule them for the same day and open them together. Plenty of couples do.

Real letters from the vault

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YL

宝 其实我是个警察 编号5201314 做保安是为了调查你 最后案子没破 我的心却被你破了

n6943

Apr 15, 2021 · Traveled 1 day

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LSY

所以,到底要怎么形容你呢我想了好久,以我目前的文学素养来说,我脑海中的任何一个词汇拿来描述你都是词不达意的,都不能准确的概括你带给人的感觉。就好像是仲夏的傍晚独行在江边,右耳听到的是被晚风撩起的富有层次感的水波荡漾声,左耳是被灌入轻风掠过草丛的窸窣声,双手往空中肆意一抓仿佛就能抓到一团新鲜的热浪。天

n6943

Apr 15, 2021 · Traveled 1 day

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亲爱的宋小姐

亲爱的宋小姐,今天应该正好是我们分手六年整,如果我一直没有找你的话,我们的缘分应该就到此为止了,我已经等了你好多年了,也从来没忘记过想你。不管今后怎么样,我永远都会记住和你在一起那一年的感觉,真得很美好,很让人怀念我已经在无数个梦里面娶过你了张先生20210416(也许现在你已经是我老婆了呢)

大菠萝

Apr 16, 2021 · Traveled 2 years 9 months

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亲爱的宋小姐

亲爱的宋小姐: 今天应该是我们分手正好六周年,如果你看到这封邮件之前,我没有去找过你,估计我就真的放弃了。无数个夜里我都会无法控制的想起你,也许你从分手那天以后就没想起过我,但是我从来没有忘记过你,和你在一块的那一年是我最幸福开心的一年,你应该就是我青春时光里的那颗朱砂痣吧。有些人曾经拥有过就足够幸

大菠萝

Apr 16, 2021 · Traveled 2 years 9 months

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写给小张同学

嗨亲爱的,没想到会收到我的来信吧哈哈哈哈,留的地址是你的邮箱,也不知道你会不会看到。我为什么要写信呢,因为你收到信的今天应该是当年咱俩在一起的那一天,如果咱俩还在一起的话,貌似也已经是第四年了哦。( ̄▽ ̄)从我寄信出去的这一天起,三年已经过去了,我好好奇你现在会是什么样子的,也不知道你还有没有不开心

guooyukun

Apr 19, 2021 · Traveled 2 years 8 months

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希望给我一个机会吧

我是王英杰,我想问问你可否给我一个机会.如果说一年后的今天你还是没有对象,不可不可以给我一个机会呢,我已经知道错了,那一天是我的错误,你当时给我的两个选择,我真的没有办法去选择,我感觉到的当时的两个选择通往的是分手的道路。所以我才说我不想选,真的不是别的意思真的过了近乎半年我放不下你我不知道这封信你

n6992

Apr 21, 2021 · Traveled 9 days

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写给ta

不应该是这样的这不是 那不是 全都不是啊不应该是这样的怎么会这样呢这一切都不是啊喏,还是因为我太过弱小吗,是这样呀,对不起,是我太自以为是了交织着爱与恨的世界虚伪还是真实我已经分辨不出即使眉头紧锁也得不到答案我想到的是那个像我这样的人啊感受到世界的背面的人啊偶尔挣扎的人啊偶尔不俗的人啊仍旧善良的人啊

偶尔悲观的人

Apr 24, 2021 · Traveled 5 years

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写给未来的…

李孜雨你好,当你收到这个邮件的时候我们没复合的话分手已经一年了,话说接下来的一年你肯定找了一个比我好看比我有钱的对象了吧,那时候天天躲在西站吃东西喝喝茶颜什么的,去面包店买面包什么的都是想着没钱,连一件情侣衣服都没买过我真没用啊对不起,不过那时候跟你在一起吃东西挺开心的,我对你也确实很烂,我不该动手

时生

Apr 24, 2021 · Traveled 10 months 22 days

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写给未来的…

李孜雨你好,当你收到这个邮件的时候我们没复合的话分手已经一年了,话说接下来的一年你肯定找了一个比我好看比我有钱的对象了吧,那时候天天躲在西站吃东西喝喝茶颜什么的,去面包店买面包什么的都是想着没钱,连一件情侣衣服都没买过我真没用啊对不起,不过那时候跟你在一起吃东西挺开心的,我对你也确实很烂,我不该动手

时生

Apr 24, 2021 · Traveled 10 months 22 days

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你好啊憨憨

你好啊憨憨,今天跟你三年了呢,这是你的第三个生日哈哈哈哈,好爱你啊憨憨,我觉得你好可爱,我要带你去吃好多好吃的什么的,我们虽然会吵架但是永远吵不散,我知道憨憨会包容我,我会慢慢变好的,琪琪很爱憨憨,憨憨也会爱琪琪,以后在一起了就天天带你去喝茶颜悦色,最喜欢抱憨憨了,琪琪要把不好的毛病都改掉,我很想你

时生

Apr 24, 2021 · Traveled 11 months 8 days

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G阿婆

飞飞,阿婆祝你生日快乐!在你身边的人应该还是我吧,如果是我请看1:如果不是我请看2:1:如果现在我还在你身边我们应该结婚了吧,2021年4月的阿婆想问2022年11月的飞飞,我们有宝宝了没,是男孩女孩呀?我希望是个女孩,不过是男孩也没有关系,下一胎我们再努力生女孩,嘿嘿!宝宝是像你多还是像我多啊?我

g阿婆

Apr 28, 2021 · Traveled 1 year 7 months

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宝贝这是给你的

今天是2021年的4月29号,我下午四点去永辉超市的二楼面试了一个五一的睿丁英语假期兼职,进去看了一下,熟悉的套路,确定那是个骗子,我扭头就走了,真是个大聪明。5月6号那天要去轻轻教育,不知道有没有成功。现在同学也平时没什么联系了也就一个种花的彭广发会平时打打电话,((¬︿̫̿¬☆)就是很嫌弃他。。

祖祖好乖

Apr 29, 2021 · Traveled 2 years

Frequently Asked Questions

What if we break up before it arrives?

Once sealed, a letter's content and delivery date can't be changed — but if you truly don't want it sent, you can delete it from your letters page before delivery day. Many people play it safe by sending the letter to their own inbox and deciding later whether to pass it on.

Can my partner peek at it early?

No. Between sealing and delivery day, nobody can read it — not even you. The surprise stays whole.

How far ahead should I send it?

First anniversaries, wedding anniversaries, and birthdays are the favorites. For a first letter, keep it within a year — it's free, and the anticipation is just right.

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