Why Not to Convey Your Love via Email

Part 1: Confessing your love by email may look tempting, but you should not do it. Here's why.

Say I love You

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It is remarkably difficult to say "I love you". This is a problem for long-time couples ("Hey, I do not know you love me, I want you to tell me!"), but it seems to be a hurdle impossible to take for those who want -- and at the same time do not want -- to confess their love for the first time.

Sending a quick email is comparably easy. So why not combine the difficult with the easy to get the modestly difficult action of conveying your love via email?

There are reasons why you should not do that.

Email is Impersonal

Email can be perceived as being impersonal, with all the spam and even viruses (quite appropriately called 'ILOVEYOU', for example) you get it can be perceived as being very impersonal.

This is not the environment where you want to convey your love. You want as much personal touch as possible. When you love somebody, everyone and everything else becomes void (this is why it is rather paradox to "love every one"). And now you want the confession of your love to appear next and somehow equal to unsolicited porn ads?

Of course, all that personality that you get when you confess your love to someone face to face can appear to be too much. It would be much easier to write. Good, but if you must write, do it with pen, ink and fine paper. Your handwriting is more personal, and it is prettier than Arial BoldFace. Give your letter to the admired one personally, if possible. But don't write an email, please.

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