SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER 12

Keeping Relationship Journals

    Most 'loving' relationships get along without much deep communication.
But if you see the benefits of examining your relationship
and communicating all of your thoughts and feelings,
then keeping a diary of your relationship and sharing it periodically
might be a wonderful additional way to express your love.  

    A relationship journal can take almost any form.
Would you like to write it by hand on paper?
Or will you use some form of electronic memory?
Do your writing in any way that works well for you.  




HOW KEEPING A RELATIONSHIP JOURNAL
MIGHT CHANGE YOUR LOVE-LIFE
   
    If your journal is honest and complete,
you are certain to learn something more about
how your relationship feels from the other side.
And you might discover new dimensions
of your own side of the relationship as well.
Once you begin writing about the relationship,
half-articulated perspectives emerge into clarity.  

    Of course, if the benefits are not worth the added effort,
you can always modify your practice
or completely abandon it.  
But do you think keeping a relationship journal
might be worth a serious attempt?
Read this chapter to see if this might be a way
of improving communication in your loving relationship.



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