Who said the art of romance was dead?
Some of us crave our rugged Irish men to have more of a French oh-lá-lá attitude to love… but maybe it’s just we’ve been missing it all along.
The romantic tradition of sending love letters through the post is not dead yet in Ireland, apparently.
Although we’re still waiting for ours here…
And, surprise, surprise, it is us women that are more likely to pen an odd love note to our beaus.
The survey, carried out by dating website Seeking Arrangement.com, found that six per cent of Irish women and four per cent of men still send romantic letters.
Are you one of those?
Many of us have bounded into the technology age with glee, but have abandoned putting pen to paper in favour of shorter digital messages.
“Can’t wait 2 cu this wknd, luv u x” doesn’t have quite the same ring of romance as a scented note in the post, does it?
Six per cent of Irish women still send love letters… the real kind.
Understandably, the survey found that these short text messages, emails and online chat messages aren’t cherished over the years the same way letters would be.
Although couples do keep particularly poignant texts and emails, many don’t bother to save them.
It seems our men aren’t a complete stranger to sharing their feelings on paper though, as the survey also found 92 per cent of men have sent a romantic email at some point. We’d have preferred it if these emails had been screened though, we really don’t know what their idea of ‘romantic’ could have been…
In comparison, 96 per cent of women have sent a romantic mail at one point… did the four per cent difference just not get a reply?!
The Irish culture of love has found its way into text messages, as 97 per cent of women and 89 per cent of men have expressed their undying feelings through the phone messages.
The website’s founder Brandon Wade said; “What this shows is that we are just as romantic as we have ever been, we are just showing it in a different way…”
We still wouldn’t mind a classic love letter in the post though…
