My partner and I started a shared journal to document our relationship but we've completely different writing styles and timelines - I write long reflective entries while they jot quick notes, and now it feels disjointed and we both avoid it. We both wanted this external record of our growth together but it's becoming a source of tension instead of connection.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people discover that externalizing shared memory requires navigating fundamentally different relationships to written reflection.
“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.