Does anyone regularly put pen to paper to write lengthy letters to his or her wife or husband, or even just friends that he might see every day?

When you have the immediacy, and it's consistent and dependable, there's not much reason to take to the long-form methods of communication. You're already mostly familiar with one another and what goes on in each other's lives, so you don't need any background explanation or long storytelling. And the fact that you'll get responses quickly, and can respond to those just as quickly, means you don't have to qualify everything you say and explain it to the smallest detail -- you can expect people to ask questions, and then you can answer them... so it turns into a dialogue, rather than a lecture.

I've come to very much enjoy political, theological, philosophical (and what have you) discussions, but I don't know that I'd be all that participatory here. I can't quite pinpoint why. I don't fear people holding things against me, and I wouldn't hold things against anyone else -- at least the people I know and care about, I also know they aren't the sort to like me less if I don't share their views exactly. Our relationships aren't based on political compatibility.

A lot of us have taken to journaling because that seems to be a medium more appropriate for the sort of communication we're doing. I can post about Pregabalin and fibromyalgia on my site, and only the people who care about it and how I'm doing with it have to visit and read. If I post it here in a journal format, it feels almost like I'm intruding, even though I know I'm a part of this forum too. I don't know what the theme is for this forum, exactly, but it seems only major events merit journal-type posts here. Maybe that's just my own low self-confidence talking, though.

I'm not sure where I'm heading. I know I still read about a lot of Rinkies' lives and I do still care about you guys. Being out of college, I'm also starved for discussion (not just conversation). I find that on another board, to an extent. I'm not sure I'd be able to transplant those discussions here, and again I'm not sure why, except what I already detailed.

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