"It has been my experience sometimes things aren't as neatly wrapped up as authors and well meaning friends tell me."

I know exactly what you mean. It seems to me that everyone around me can explain events in their lives with such ease, summing up a bad situation in a sentence or two. I, on the other hand, always feel like my situation is too complicated for anyone I know to understand - so I just opt to keep things inside. I never used to be that way. I was always an open book, but the story got too long and hard to tell somewhere along the line.