A major factor in any healthy relationship is communication. Without communication, it becomes hard to know if you are doing things right or if your partner knows what he is doing. With all the different communication tools available, it is easy to miss some good communication in a relationship that can bring bad news to the home owner. One of the most common communication tools that I use when I am trying to communicate with my wife is a journal. You need to be able to express your feelings and frustrations as they come up. By writing these feelings down, it allows you to analyze your situation at a later time. This allows you to make an educated guess about whether or not you are doing something right in your relationship. You can also look back at the past and see how things may have turned out differently if you had been more open with each other about negative or hurtful things that happened in the past. We often do not let those feelings affect our lives today. But, these feelin