Dear Future Wife,

Hi. We have yet to meet, so all I have to go on about

you is my imagination. One of those imaginary trips I

took in my mind brought up the idea of talking to you

before I even meet you. So via these letters, I would

like to get a head start on us getting to know each

other. I’ll go first.

First of all, and there will be a few in all, I want to

thank you for coming into my life. I’ve never been

much of a romantic, or worried about having a

soulmate or life-partner, but that doesn’t stop me

from feeling this colossal sense of relief for having

finally met you. To be honest, there have been times

recently where I really wasn’t sure if I was ever going

to find you; or worse - if I will deserve you.

I think this would be a good time to tell you where I

am speaking from: the year is 2014, and I am (as you

are calculating and the answer is…) 24 right now. I’m

not going to waste this opportunity to write a double

entendre: you, dear wife, are my future. You see the

two meanings there? Not only are you my actual

future, since we’re married (or about to be in case I

gave you these letters post-engagement) for eternity

et al, but you’re quite literally my future as well! And

yes, my habit of explaining my clever jokes has now

expanded to the written word as well. I would

apologize for this, but then I would be apologizing

every time I do it and it just doesn’t seem fair to

either of us if I continue to do things I have to

apologize for. So I will continue to do this until you

give me a serious life or divorce ultimatum.

Real quick: did you see the thing I did there with

turning the regular ol’ "life or death” phrase into life

or divorce? So sorry again.

This is the point in the letters where I am tempted to

say “Now, I know what you’re wondering…”, but I am

not going to do that because I would never ever dare

to assume that I know what you’re thinking unless you

want me to know what you're thinking in which case

of course I do.

So coming back to why I’m using this medium to

communicate with you. The obvious reason is that

you’re so wonderful and perfect and beautiful that I

just needed to find a way to talk to you before I meet

you. And also, the possibility that you’ll have this

available to read before you actually become my wife

is my way of opening up my past to you so you can

decide if we can make a future together.

The not-so-obvious reason is that I'm not so sure

about this whole love thing. Is it okay if I say that? I

hope it is because I'm going to sound very unsure to

you for most of these letters. It's not that I don't

believe in love - I'm almost sure I do. What it really

is...well...maybe we should both continue with these

letters to find out. Because at this point it seems like

I'm as intrigued by the idea of these letters as you

are.