My A-Z theme for the month of April is romance and the modern, technology-driven cubicle dweller (like me). E-mail is romantic? It is if you do it right 😉
I have an image in my head – black & white 1950’s style – a boy in his pre-teens runs across the living room, slides through the kitchen door, and grabs the rotary phone off it’s cradle as it’s ringing. After a brief exchange of words with the person on the other end, the boy holds the phone away from his ear, yelling through the house for his sister, “It’s for you! It’s a boy!”
Some people exchange phone numbers – digits if you’d prefer. But I know so many people who don’t like to talk on the phone. They’d prefer email, or a text, or go friend them on Facebook (okay, really, I hear this happens in the dating scene, but have never seen proof – can anyone confirm?)
Even for the established couple, so much of our communication is electronic. Especially in cases like those I mentioned yesterday. Life is hectic, we’re short on time, but we still want some quality conversation with our significant others.
So when there’s no time for a stolen kiss and no money for flowers, sometimes a quick email is the perfect thing to do the trick. To let that guy or gal know someone is thinking about them (and maybe a little hint or explicity about what someone is thinking about doing with them 😉 is the perfect reminder at the perfect time.
Do think email can be romantic, or is it an excuse to not give the conversation your all?
I think email could be romantic as long as the right “voice” is used when reading it. Oh how I miss the rotary phone, by the way, as I have two teens now.
Sad but true. My hubby and I often have the best conversations via text or email. It’s one of the times our kids aren’t interrupting us.
As for romantic…a well timed “I’m thinking about you and what I’ve got planned for tonight” can be super hot.
I probably shouldn’t have written that last part!
I’ve never found email that romantic. There’s something that much more personal about a hand-written note…. Email feels too businesslike, too remote to be truly romantic.
The Husband and I did a huge part of our courting via email and phone conversations. Maybe it was because on an email screen it was easier to ask Big Questions (do you want kids? how many? what is your philosophy about money? etc.). So to me, to this day, email *can* be romantic. 😉
People email? Good to know. No one sends me emails. Well, except on writing.com and those are like romantic ones. BF lives in a different time zone and we either talk on phone, messenger or text. But no emails. maybe I need to change that.