I’ve always seemed to have a problem with trusting people and telling them how I feel. My boyfriend of 4 years was starting to go crazy. I knew what was going on, and I was trying so hard to fix it. I like to write a lot, so I thought, “If I can’t say these things, writing them should be a lot easier.” So, I took a journal and wrote about 20 pages of things that I wanted him to know, and what was hard for me to verbally say. I left some room in the journal for him to write back…and he did. He loved the idea and we worked on it for a long time. We filled it up in about 6 months. This is a really good idea for people that have a hard time expressing themselves.