A romantic love letter from Héloise to Peter Abelard

True love does not always run as smooth as we want it and sometimes we are forced to be apart for long periods of time — maybe military service or other job career moves. The lives of this husband and wife (monk and nun) living in separate worlds because of family pressures and the shame of their love for each other in their local society sums up how couples must feel from time to time when separated for long periods of time. This romantic love letter talks at length about the deep depression which Héloise fell into from time to time.

Yes there is the old saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and there is a lot of truth in it. But it can also feel very lonely and rejection/dejection can easily slip in. With the very easy access to telephones and email it would be easy to send a quick message to cheer someone up and tell them that you are thinking of them and missing them so much.  Maybe if Peter had been able to contact Héloise as easily as we can nowadays she would not have left to feel so bad. With telphones and email we no longer have any excuse for keeping our sweetheart feeling distance. How long does it take to write a quick loving letter even if it has to be sent by email? We can even recommend some inexpensive specialist support system to help you to do this. Simply go to http://LoveLettersCentral.com/writeletters for more info

But if I lose you, what is left to hope for? What reason for continuing on the pilgrimage of life, for which I have no support but you and none in you except the knowledge that you are alive, now that I am forbidden all other pleasures in you and denied even the joy of of your presence which form time to time could restore me to myself?

O God — if I dare say it — cruel to me in everything!

O merciless mercy!

O fortune who is only ill fortune, who has already spent on me so many of the shafts she uses in battle against mankind that she has none left to vent her anger on others. She has emptied a full quiver on me, so that from now no one else need fear her onslaughts, and if she still had a single arrow she could find no place in me to take a wound. Her only dread is that through my many wounds death may end my sufferings and though she does not cease to destroy me, she still fears the destruction which she hurries on.

Of all the wretched women I am the most wretched and amongst the unhappy I am the unhappiest.  The higher I was exulted when you preferred me above all other women, the greater my suffering over my own fall and yours, when I was flung down; for the higher the ascent the heavier the fall. Has fortune ever set any great or noble woman over me and made her my equal, only to be similarly cast down and crushed with grief?

What glory she gave me in you, what ruin she brought upon me through you! Violent in extreme, she showed no moderation in good or evil. To make me the saddest of all women she first made me blessed above all, so that when I thought how much I had lost, my consuming grief would match my crushing loss, and my sorrow for what was taken from me would be the greater for the fuller joy of possession which gone before; and so that the happiness of supreme ecstasy would end in the supreme bitterness of sorrow.

Not all the romantic love letters sent by Heloise to her husband Peter Abelard were as painful to read as this one.  Others were full of joy and pleasure just being able to think positively about him for example when she received a love letter from him.

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