The couple has 10,000 love notes filled with endless ‘I love yous.’ Bill Bresnan has written a letter to his wife Kris every day since they met in 1974. In walks this beautiful, blond, obviously Northern European Woman, (that's Woman with a capital "W," by the way) who will become my student for the next six weeks, four evenings per week. I was preparing candidates to become licensed in the securities industry by taking their Series VII exam. “And while we were on the Long Island Railroad having coffee together I’d scribble a little something a napkin or write it on the end of a newspaper and that kept developing until I gave her actual cards,” Bill Bresnan said. Elara Mosquera/ABC News 
 
 The daily expressions of love began as notes scribbled on napkins and small pieces of paper he gave to his wife over coffee while commuting together shortly after they met, Bresnan said. The same napkins and notes developed at lunches and dinners later on. Every day — 365 days per year, each year — I write to my wife. The year she turned 50, I started sending her Happy Birthday cards 50 days before the actual date, and one for each day of that milestone year. Though Bresnan has already sent his wife plenty of Valentine's Day cards before the date, he said they'll still do something simple to celebrate.  NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — One couple’s 40 year love story has surfaced just in time for Valentine’s Day. One thing that holds true throughout every sentiment — every single card is an expression of my deep love for Kris by being signed, "I love you madly++, my Darling," followed by the infinity sign. Add Interest 
 
 Toms River resident Bill Bresnan, 74, has written a love letter every day to Kirsten Bresnan, 74, his wife of almost 40 years, and there are more than 10,000 of them filed chronologically in 25 boxes at their home. It brought tears to my eyes right there in the desert, and the point stayed with me till I got home. Buy Photo Bill and Kris Bresnan sit with 25 boxes of cards and letters that he’s written to her over their 40 year marriage. We have always enjoyed 1955's "Summertime," staring Katharine Hepburn and Rossanno Brazzi. Cunard took us out of Florida; six days across the Atlantic and then across the Mediterranean to Genoa, Italy. After dinner we walked, as all visitors to Venice must, over to Piazza San Marco so I could have one of the groups of musicians play not only the "Summertime" theme, but "Al Di La" for Kris. "The key to any relationship is that you both have to work at it every day," Bresnan said.
– Bill and Kirsten Bresnan are off to an early Valentine's Day start—they've been sharing holiday-themed cards since Feb. 1. But that's not even close to the whole story. Bill has penned a love note to his wife nearly every day since 1974. Bresnan tells the Asbury Park Press that "Kris" was initially a student of his in a six-week prep class for the Series 7 exam; when they started commuting on the same Long Island Railroad train, he began by jotting notes to her on napkins. It grew from there to, by today's count, 10,000 letters, organized chronologically in some 25 boxes. The couple, who say they've never had a fight in all those years and prefer to talk it out instead of argue, call the collection their "love diary." The signature of each letter bears an infinity sign. Some of the notes are short and sweet—"Thank you for being you and loving me," scribbled on a postcard in December 1989—but sometimes Bill goes big, reports ABC News. In the 50 days leading up to Kris' 50th birthday, for instance, he sent a series of 50 special cards. But in the end, Bill says, the key is to focus on and treasure each other, not phones and other distractions; he says dinner each night is eaten by candlelight, with romantic music as a backdrop. As for this Valentine's Day, "We'll probably have a nice dinner, a special bottle of wine, and a piece of chocolate," he says. "We're past the craving for jewelry and expensive nonsense. We just enjoy simply being together." As for his letter-writing habit, he expresses a single qualm to CBS New York: "As I get older, my biggest fear is the day I forget to give it to her." (One couple's love letters from WWI were recently uncovered.)