EMILY McKAY'S KEYS TO BLISS NEWSLETTER
 
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It isn't often these days that a man says the words
we as women LONG to hear.

But Scot just hit the jackpot when he described to
the guys in his newsletter how to do exactly that.

What he wrote is so RIGHT ON that you just might
stand up and cheer:


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THE LOST ART - by Scot McKay
 

I recently got a call from a guy who couldn’t wait to share
his latest success story with me. Suddenly, his new
girlfriend was more adoring and affectionate than ever,
which boosted his confidence to new heights and thrilled
him to no end.

What’s more, even the woman’s mother was now
completely won over, telling him that she had thought
such wonderful men didn’t exist anymore.

So what had triggered this bonanza of euphoria all
around him?

He had hand-written his girlfriend a love letter.

He described it as a simple one, one page front and back.
In it, he expressed how magical his time spent with her
had been thus far and talked about a future full of exciting
travels and boundless adventure together.

After sharing the details with me, he paused briefly before
suggesting in a quieter, almost reverent tone that he had
stumbled upon something really big here.

In his words, “a type of wild card to solidify a relationship,
or maybe a way to help a guy get the girl he’s been dating
for a while to fall in love."

He’s 100% right about all of that, naturally. Yet, the irony
of an art as ancient as the written word itself somehow
being discovered anew in the present day wasn’t lost on me.

Real, face-to-face conversation was long ago effectively
replaced by the telephone, of course.

But nowadays e-mail, text messaging and the all-conquering
social media have all but rendered pen and paper laughably
obsolete in the minds of most.

Indeed, much has been said about the rise of social media
and its deleterious effect on how people relate to each other
in the real world nowadays.

In an age where commenting on a “friend’s” Facebook post
psychologically registers as tantamount to a personal visit,
communication has become cheap.

It’s as if genuine relationship has given way at the baseline
level to “checking in” or “circling back”.

Even “hooking up” implies that physical, in-person contact
is only happening out of sheer necessity.

Add it all up and it’s no wonder men and women have such
a hard time genuinely connecting nowadays. Predictably,
tutorials for frustrated single men on how to use text, e-mail
and social media to attract women abound.

E-books on how to text a spark back into a flagging
relationship are everywhere.

But none of them ever even think to suggest the idea of
writing a woman a real, actual, pen-and-ink love letter.

Like the power of a hand-written invitation or thank you
note, an old-fashioned love letter captivates a woman’s
attention and touches her heart in a unique, almost
supernatural way.

The part that both surprises and amazes me is that it’s
always been that way, even before electronic media
ostensibly took over.

My sixth-great grandfather was named Micajah Autry. Back
in the 1830s he left Tennessee–and the woman he so dearly
loved–to seek a better life for his family out west.

Before long he joined Davy Crockett’s posse and eventually
wound up in Texas. In 1836 he was one of the more celebrated
defenders of the Alamo, considered perhaps the best marksmen
of the lot.

Today he’s counted among the great heroes in Texas history.

In other words, he was sort of a badass. Enough so that my
son, who was born in San Antonio, is named after him.

As soon as Junior was old enough to understand, I took him
to the very Alamo his namesake fought and died at.

After entering, removing our hats as directed and marveling
at the history all around us, we mentioned to the lady behind
the counter that we were Autry descendants.

In response, she made no mention of his adventures with
Davy Crockett, his shooting skills or anything of the like.

Instead, she tilted her head, joy filled her eyes and an
unmistakable aura of warmth washed over her countenance.

“Oh…he’s known for having written the most wonderful love
letters to his wife, Martha.”

In this red-blooded woman’s estimation, therein was found
Micajah Autry’s greatest heroism, and perhaps even true
genius.

This despite longhand letters having been the only
communication option back in his day. Apparently, even then
few if any of his contemporaries had the wherewithal to write
so profoundly, assuming they loved as deeply.

That very evening, curiosity got the best of me. A mere five
minutes of Internet research delivered the following gem,
written by Micajah Autry to the love of his life, who he would
tragically never see again:

“Night before last [I stood] two hours during which the moon
rose in all her mildness but splendor and majesty. With what
pleasure did I contemplate that lovely orb chiefly because I
recollected how often I had taken pleasure in standing in the
door and contemplating her together. Indeed I imagined that
you might be looking at her at the same time.”

Despite the fact that nobody really talks like that anymore, I
felt great pride reading my ancestor’s eloquent words.

I could only imagine how such a poetic expression of such
deep connection had melted Martha’s heart upon reading it.

Now, as many of us have figured out the hard way, it’s creepy
to write mushy, drawn-out handwritten missives to women
we barely know, let alone if they’re not exactly attracted to us
yet.

But the undeniable proof is there. If you’ve successfully
charmed a woman into being crazy about you, there’s no better
plan than to go “old school”.

Pick up a pen and write her a real, genuine love letter.

What do you think? Am I on to something here, or am I fighting
a losing battle living in the past? Is texting and social media
really the way to go from now on?

 

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