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Love Journal
“Thank you for every day giving me a reason to fall in love all over again”
It’s okay, we all do it. You get together with your friends and you end up complaining about your partner and all the ways you don’t feel supported, and its easy to forget all the little things that your lover does for you that shows how special you are to their lives.
A “Love Journal” is the perfect way to always remember those special little things that your partner has done for you, and during times of frustration gives you a place to visit and remember all over again why you are so very much in love with this person that sometimes drives you crazy.
This journal is a chronicle of your relationship, and will be a cherished part of your romantic FairyTale with the one you love. It’s a place for you to open and read romantic passages and memories that warm your heart in both difficult and wonderful times, and a special memory book to read together with your partner in moments of tender love and reflection.
Like everything in a healthy relationship, the “Love Journal is not one sided, and you both have your matching journals to record special little romantic moments that happen each day.
So We Never Forget, and a Memory For When We Do …
The reason for you and your partner having a “Love Journal” that you write in on a regular basis, is so that you are always reminded to take a few moments and do something romantic each and every day for the one you love, and never forget how special they are.
These journals should be kept as focal points on your respective night tables beside your bed, and each night before you turn out the lights and kiss good night, you each take a few moments to write in your journal. It becomes a little bed time ritual just like brushing your teeth, and before you know it you just grab the journal and write a little passage without even realizing you are doing it. It becomes your healthiest love habit.
Beginning your journal may seem like an arduous task that you can’t imagine having time for, but once you start, journalling will become a seamless part of your romantic evening. Remember, we are not asking you to write pages and pages each day, each passage needs only to be a few words or lines, memories to make you remember a special moment in time.
A simple journal of love may sound inconsequential as you are sitting reading this, but think of how important this will be during a moment in the future when you are going through a challenging time and need to read a few tender words of love to warm your heart.
It may seem like a long way off, but there will also be a time when you are a quarter century older than you are today, and you will want to pick up this book and reflect on the happiness you felt in your life so many years ago as you remember all the wonderful loving times you have lived.
Creating Your Journal
When starting your journal it is so very tempting to go to Amazon and find a beautiful leather bound book with antique pages that looks like a romantic piece of art and add it to your cart … but wait, there’s a better solution that will be much more functional and personal to you.
Every little romantic touch that you add to your life, takes a wee bit of time, so you need to make sure that everything you do to make your life wonderful, is also something that will feel like a loving addition to your life and not a chore, hence the selection of your journal should be both practical and easy to modify over time.
Our suggestion for the best configuration of your “Love Journal” is a 3 ring binder with lined looseleaf pages. No, you’re right, that doesn’t sound romantic at all, but keep reading and it will all make sense in a minute and have your creative juices flowing.
Tabulating Your FairyTale Romance
The choice of a 3 ring binder for your “Love Journal” versus a more traditional bound variety is for the simplicity and ease of making modifications and additions to the way you organize your thoughts over time, making your journal personalized to the way you like to write and organize your thoughts and feelings.
If you embark on journalling your romantic moments, but find it becomes cumbersome, you will give up, and we don’t want that. We want this to become a fun and loving ritual for you that you look forward to each day, and by having your journal flexible and easily customizable, it will grow with you the way you are growing to love it.
We suggest several index tabs to keep your journal organized both for the recording of memories, and the ease of looking back to reflect on special moments. If you are one day wanting to look back at what romantic little gift your partner surprised you with, you can flip to the “Loving Gifts” tab and look through your memories, where as if you are looking for a little poem they wrote you, it is easy to flip to your ‘Thoughtful Words” tab.
Your journal is also the perfect place to have a “Love Me” tab, where you keep little snippets of personal achievements, a fitness log with your measurements and date (you must be happy in the mirror to be happy in your life) , and little things you did for yourself that made you feel good. It is so very important to love yourself first, and know what in life makes you happy as a person. If you are happy with yourself, it is so much easier to share love and happiness with those around you who mean so much.
Choosing a binder format, your journal will be flexible and grow with you over time as you can easily add extra pages as needed, add little mementos using sleeve protectors and pouches, and even add scrapbook pages of a coloured card stock for extra special memories and personalization. Keeping your journal flexible and easy to use, there are no excuses not to start writing and keep writing….now how can we dress this binder up?
Embellish Me!
You have collected your binder, looseleaf pages, category tabs, and keepsake sleeves, and have it all set out on your bedside table ready to start your “Love Journal” …. but wait!!!!
Two binders sitting in your bedroom just doesn’t match with the romantic vibe of candles, pillows, warmth, and comfortable romance that you have so carefully crafted in your intimate space, so it’s time to have some fun!
Your binder has a flat front and back just waiting for your very own style and personalization to make your “Love Journal” the stand out romantic focal point in your room. With your glue gun in hand, it’s time to start decorating your masterpiece.
Bring in the elements of your room that make it so special to you, and emblazon your journal with textures, colours, and attributes that you have included in the romantic decor of your special space.
Have fun with this and make your journal reflect your romantic personality with pieces of feather boa, fabric, fur, silk flowers and battery operated fairy lights. You want your journal to be a romantic part of your life, and it’s up to you to dress it for the part.
Recording the special little moments in the romance of your life, and the thoughtful gestures and experiences your partner has surprised you with is not a chore to fit into your life, but instead something special to look forward to at the end of your day. It is the last activity before kissing the love of your life lying beside you, and wishing each other a good night.
Romantic Reflections is a collection of thoughts and musings intended to add little touches of love and romance to our relationships creating a fairytale that will last forever.