To write Letters to Loved Ones, sign in first.
This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.
Letters to Loved Ones is for the things you would want to say to a particular person, written down while you can say them properly.
Where to find it
Open Family & Friends, choose Wishes & Legacy, then Letters to Loved Ones.
What it is for
Not a will and not instructions. A letter.
The things that do not fit anywhere else: what you were thinking the day they were born, the story you never told them, the thing you want them to stop feeling guilty about, the advice you would give if you were there and you will not be.
Nobody reads it until you say so
Everything you write here is private while you write it. Nobody in your Circle is notified, nobody sees a draft, and there is no indication to anyone that you have been writing.
That is what makes it possible to write the true version rather than the presentable one.
Write to one person
Letters addressed to one person are easier to write, and they land better too. Writing to your sister is a conversation you have had a thousand times, and the words tend to come on their own.
If you have several people in mind, write several short letters rather than one long one. Each person gets to feel like the letter was for them, because it was.
You can change it whenever you like
Nothing here is final. Come back next year and rewrite the lot. People change, relationships change, and a letter from a bad month is not one you are stuck with.
Worth knowing before you begin. Nothing you write today has to be the final word, so you are free to simply start.
If you cannot start
Write the boring version first. "I want you to know that I was proud of you" is a perfectly good sentence and much better than a beautiful one you never wrote.
Or write about a specific afternoon instead of a whole relationship. Detail carries feeling better than summary does. The kitchen, the car journey, the argument you both laughed about later. Those are the things people keep.
You can make a copy to keep
The page can produce a copy of what you have written, so the words exist somewhere other than a screen.
Worth doing for anything you would be upset to lose. A printed letter in a drawer has no account to log into and no password to find, which is exactly why it survives.