Like one inside a pocket in every jacket. She still tells me the most romantic thing ever was one time I typed two pages of reasons why I loved her then cut them up into tiny pink strips (numbered of course) and then went through all of her personal stuff and hide them in places only she would find them. Even if I’m in Mumbai and one of us has to stay up until 1:00am or get up at 4:am, we always tell each other we love them and good night. It's now a small book.Īlso, we always end the day in a call together. She has saved them over the years so not only one per time she travels but Mother’s Day or birthday, or sometimes random desire to let her know I love her. Or I sketch something I found beautiful and add a small note.
I write one very romantic or passionate letter or story or poem. I travel 8-12 times a year so this is some work. Or they see the collection in the pocket of my back pack. The people at my work where I travel to the same location now laugh when I reach into a coat pocket, pull one out and read it. I'm talking I’ll pull on a dress shirt and discover a little card in the pocket that says, “call me at 11:00 my time hot stuff”.
My wife's method is to sneak into my luggage and leave little love notes and comments and requests for a hot call on colored cards. Yet for our entire marriage whenever one of us travels we do something special for the one traveling. We're both professionals in career with kids no longer at home.
