Little Love Notes: 45+ Short Messages to Leave

The best love notes are short, unprompted and found somewhere unexpected — a lunchbox, a coat pocket, the steering wheel. Here are 45+ little messages.

Send one as a free love ecard, or leave it on paper where they will find it.

For a lunchbox, pocket or bag

1. Hope today is easy on you.
2. Thinking about you. Carry on.
3. You are the best part of my day and it is only 8am.
4. Have a good one. Come home to me.
5. Just a reminder that somebody is very fond of you.
6. Get through today. I will be here after.
7. You have got this. Obviously.
8. Found this pen and thought of you. Sorry, it is a bad note.
9. Love you. That is the whole note.
10. Do not let them wear you down today.
11. Miss you already and you left twenty minutes ago.
12. Come home safe.

Just because

1. No reason. Just love you.
2. Thought about you and wanted you to know.
3. Nothing has happened. I am simply fond of you.
4. You crossed my mind and improved my afternoon.
5. Still my favourite person. Thought I would mention it.
6. This is not about anything. You are just good.
7. Random Tuesday, same feelings.
8. I like you enormously. Carry on.
9. Thinking of you for no reason at all.
10. Consider this an unprompted appreciation note.

When one of you is away

1. Bed is too big. Come back.
2. Everything is fine and everything is quieter. Miss you.
3. Counting down. Badly, and out loud.
4. Hope the trip is going well. Wrong postcode, right person.
5. Left this so you would find it when you unpacked. Miss you.
6. Safe travels. Text me when you land.
7. The house is far too tidy without you.
8. Come home. The kettle is on, permanently.

After a long time together

1. Twenty years and I still like finding you in the kitchen.
2. Still choosing you, on an ordinary Wednesday.
3. We have done a lot of years. All of the good ones had you in them.
4. Familiar is not the same as taken for granted. I know the difference.
5. I would do all of it again, including the difficult bits.
6. Still my favourite. Still not bored.
7. Long time, no regrets.
8. You have improved with every decade. Unfair, but there it is.

Very short notes

1. Love you.
2. Missing you.
3. Thinking of you.
4. You. Always.
5. Come home soon.
6. Mad about you.
7. Still you.
8. Here whenever.
9. Yours.
10. Best thing I did.

How to write them

1. Keep it to one line. A note found in a pocket works because it is short and unexpected.
2. Leave it somewhere unlikely. The finding is half the message.
3. Do not save them for occasions. An ordinary Tuesday is exactly the point.
4. Write in your own voice. If you never say “my darling”, a note is the worst place to start.

Send it — and pair it with a gift

A free love ecard does the same job when you are apart. See also I love you messages and long distance relationship messages:

FAQ

What do you write in a little love note?

One short line in your normal voice. The brevity and the surprise are what make it work.

Where should you leave them?

Somewhere they will find it without looking — a coat pocket, a lunchbox, a laptop bag, the car.

Do love notes work in a long relationship?

Particularly then. Unprompted notes are rare after a decade, which is exactly why they land.

Should they be handwritten?

If you can. A handwritten line on paper gets kept in a way a text never does.

What is a good short note?

“No reason. Just love you.”

How often is too often?

There is no real limit, though notes work best when they are not predictable. Occasional and unexpected beats daily and routine.