Private to Marlene
[Written earlier this morning]

James is on the couch and I won't let him back into our room. We had this really huge fight last night that was actually through these journals and resulted in him coming and getting his stuff and sleeping on the couch. I'm worried that I'm taking things completely out of context (he did say it was a joke made several years ago) or that maybe I'm overreacting, but I can't be sure. I don't know if you read the conversation we had in his journal last night, but that's what happened.

Ugh - I just don't know what to think and I didn't sleep at all last night because he wasn't here. I hate fighting, I absolutely hate it, yet he has always known how to push my buttons.