Use this handy cheat sheet to expand your romantic vocabulary!

Marriage and relationship experts agree on the importance of communicating love to our partners often and in a variety of forms. In his New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman makes a strong case for spouses learning to communicate love to one another in many forms. Not the least of these is through the spoken and written word.

"I love you." It's vital these three important words be conveyed regularly and often to keep a relationship healthy and strong.

Throughout the almost 30 years of their marriage, Jim and Carrie Gordon — authors of The Intimate Couple and The Romantic Couple websites — have given and received hundreds of love letters and romantic cards to and from each other. Carrie asserts that Jim is a true romantic and has a keen ability to include romantic phrases in the love letters and greeting cards he gives to her. His use of romantic expressions clearly communicates "I love you" to Carrie!

Recently, Carrie sifted through her growing collection of cards and love letters from Jim to compile a list of loving words, romantic phrases and expressions of passion. We're including her partial list here as a cheat sheet for guys to use!

Refer to this handy list of romantic sayings the next time you're looking for a special phrase to personalize a purchased greeting card, add variety to a love letter or email, include in a text, write on a bathroom mirror or use in a note tucked inside a book.

1. You, sweetheart, are my one and only.

2. You take my breath away.

3. Lovingly yours.

4. With you, forever won't be too long.

5. To the world's best wife!

6. When I see you, I think "Good job, God!"

7. You are the love of my life!

8. It's awesome to spend my life with you!

9. Love you, sweetheart!

10. I treasure you.

11. I adore you.

12. Sweetheart, you stir my soul!

13. I'm head over heels for you.

14. I cherish you.

15. You turn me on!

16. Life is incomplete without you.

17. To the one I love:

18. We were made for each other!

19. You're my soulmate and the love of my life.

20. You're one hot babe!

21. I'm looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together!

22. Sweetheart, you add peace, subtract sorrow and multiply joy in my life!

23. I can't even conceive of life without you.

24. The best thing in life is spelled Y-O-U!

25. You, my love, are my inspiration.

Take advantage of this cheat sheet often to broaden your romantic vocabulary! Your partner will feel special and cherished as you speak or write your love for her with carefully chosen romantic phrases.

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• You are mine and so full of sunshine and I hope our love will always shine

• When you smile my heart beats as if I ran a mile and it keeps me happy for a long while

• You are queen of my heart and you make me shine like diamond when you are near

• I love that we met, I like it that nobody got you before I did

• If love is a hot cup of coffee, then ours would be mocha latte, hot, sweet and full of pep

• You are the perfect balance of tart and sweet and as great as cold lemonade on a hot afternoon

• We hold hands and our hearts join, our lips meet and our souls unite

• The day we me and I knew one day together we would get and I am glad that it happened

• I am glad that we grew up together so I did not have to miss even one awesome moment of our time together

• My heart feels like a bird taking off in the air every time you smile upon me, my dear

• Our love is like the waves in the sea, sometimes calm, sometimes tempestuous but always there

• If our love where like the rose it would have to be a new breed that has no thorns

• I know why people stare at us; it is because you are more lovely than the moon

• Time has no value unless it is time spent with you

• Any time I start feeling low I just think of you

• Hold my hand and I will hold your heart and keep it safe for all eternity

• If you asked me to I would walk miles to be with you but please never tell me to go away

• A day without you feels like a year and a day with passes in seconds my dear

• I think we are like swans, in that we met and we are meant to be together forever

• Eternity, forever, unending are all words that mean a lot more since I met you

• I wish I were a octopus so that I would have more arms to hold you

• If my days started with a kiss from you then I would never drink coffee

• If I were asked to describe the color you represent, then I would have to go with rainbow because you are beautiful, magical and being with is like finding a treasure

• I am woeful without you and awesome when I am with you.
• I’ll love you till death, and then some

• If I could I would hold you in my arms for all eternity so that I never have to sleep alone

• When I look at you I know how birds feel as they soar in the sky; you make me feel high

• I am going to request the all powers in the language world to have the letter x removed as I never want to be your ex

• I never feel the need to watch the sun rise as seeing you smile feels more beautiful and brighter than any sunrise

• Now that I have met you I wish we could become immortal so that we can be together for all eternity

• If there were something such as an academy award for being the cutest couple, then I am sure we would get it

• If somebody asked me to describe perfect happiness then I would have to say every minute I spend with you!

• You are cute as a rabbit, as chirpy as a lovebird, as cuddly as a kitten, as pretty as a peacock and simply so wonderful.

• I wish you I could simply shrink you to pocket size so that you could always be with me

• If loving somebody too much is a crime then I am guilty and wish to be sentenced to a lifetime of you

• For you my love, I would give up anything but my life as that would mean you would have to cry.

• Nobody has seen the stars close up but even I could I would not want to… why should I, when I have you?

• I wish we could travel back in time, then I would rewind the magical moment that we met for the first time again and again.

• You must find it difficult to be around metals; you are so magnetic I am always drawn to you

• I would have gifted you a cute puppy, but I did not as I would be jealous of the puppy for being with you

• If they could bottle the essence of you, then girls around the world would simply spritz some of that essence to get a bit of cuteness that is you.

• If I had known that being with you would be so much fun, we would have started dating when I was ten

• I am going to learn as many languages as possible so that I can say “I love you “ in all of them

• All my life I felt as though I was preparing for something, when I met you I knew what it was all about

• People are always telling me that I am lucky to have you and I always sit there like an idiot with a smug grin and nod agreement

• They say perfection is impossible, obviously “they” have not met you

• I know your family is full of happy people and why shouldn’t they be? They have you!

• When I looked at you for the first time, I finally got the meaning of the words “ she is the light of my life”

• I am glad we are born in this era of smart phones, computers etc. Otherwise I would have to perfect climbing up the wall outside your window just to get in touch with you

• I think the term “Perfection” fails when it comes to describing my love for you

• I like to think that we are like a pair of swans; graceful and mated for life!

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