I Love You - Letters - Encourage Your Spouse

Imagine a book filled with letters – from a husband to his wife.

In these letters, spanning the course of about 50 years – 1952-2002 – he tells her how much he loves her and talks about how her love makes him feel:

…Your gift to me is uninsurable. No appraiser can put a value on it… It’s like fruit of the month or a lifetime subscription – a perpetual-motion happiness machine. It starts off fresh and brand new every day, shining up my whole world…

This man eventually was diagnosed with Alzheimers, and died in 2004. His wife still lives in California.

As I’m reading this book – all these beautiful, touching, funny letters – I’m so thankful to his wife for sharing. It’s a beautiful tribute to a man others may only see as a political figure.

I see them as husband and wife.

Encouraging each other. Loving each other. Living life together. Leading a meaningful life – together. Raising children. Making an impact on the world – together.

Would you like to meet this husband?

He is the husband of Nancy. His name is Ronald.

Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States of America

Here are a few more quotes from the book:

But what is really important is that having fulfilled our responsibilities to our offspring we haven’t been careless with the treasure that is ours – namely what we are to each other.

I’m looking at you as you lie here beside me on this fifteenth anniversary and wondering why everyone has only just discovered you are the First Lady. You’ve been the First – in fact the only – to me for fifteen years.

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Robyn Gibson on January 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm

I’m thinking, what wife WOULDN’T want to hear from her husband, “You’ve been the First — in fact the only … ”

She must of had an amazing way about her but more importantly, what can we glean from her?!

Lori on January 13, 2012 at 5:34 pm

Good question, Robyn. (what can we glean?)

I’m still reading the book – but I can say my first impression is that she put her husband first.

She stated that *she* made the decision to stay at home with children – she’d seen too many 2-career Hollywood marriages collapse. She said they didn’t fight – but rather worked things through…
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betty jo on January 13, 2012 at 5:21 pm

“. . . we haven’t been careless with the treasure that is ours – namely what we are to each other” How beautiful! I’m sure that is a wonderful read.

Lori on January 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm

That quote was one of the first that really “hit” me. Ronnie (Ronald Reagan) had been referring to their discussion about their children and how they wanted to “help” them grow – and even though they were focused on their children, it was completely obvious that he put his relationship with Nancy first.
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Robyn Gibson on January 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm

I’m thinking, what wife WOULDN’T want to hear from her husband, “You’ve been the First — in fact the only … ”

She must of had an amazing way about her but more importantly, what can we glean from her?!
- Lori on January 13, 2012 at 5:34 pm
  
  Good question, Robyn. (what can we glean?)
  
  I’m still reading the book – but I can say my first impression is that she put her husband first.
  
  She stated that *she* made the decision to stay at home with children – she’d seen too many 2-career Hollywood marriages collapse. She said they didn’t fight – but rather worked things through…
betty jo on January 13, 2012 at 5:21 pm

“. . . we haven’t been careless with the treasure that is ours – namely what we are to each other” How beautiful! I’m sure that is a wonderful read.
- Lori on January 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm
  
  That quote was one of the first that really “hit” me. Ronnie (Ronald Reagan) had been referring to their discussion about their children and how they wanted to “help” them grow – and even though they were focused on their children, it was completely obvious that he put his relationship with Nancy first.