You need to journal for you! Don't give up your health for anyone else.

I cut my losses with the past when something like that happens. I had a whole lot of journals and started worrying about what if I died or something so I copied the "best" from each journal into the front of a new one and then destroyed the old ones. It was great reading them but I noticed I'm still working on the same issues I have always been working on, "my" issues and I think that will continue until I die. As interesting as it is to me, it won't get "lost" because it is part of me!

I would take the kindest thought I could about the husband, that he wanted to know you better, and continue on. You are not the journals themselves, that is all in you; no one can possess "You" and you could "give away" those thoughts and memories, they're still in you and still yours. Telling other people about ourselves doesn't lessen us. True, he "took" those things but they are "words" not the actual event. He still doesn't know You because You didn't give those things to him, he took them.

I would find your anger, a good Self, and tell him you know about all the things he's read and that you will not allow that to happen in the future and if you catch him even NEAR your private things in the future you will ____________ (and think of something he really really doesn't want to happen :-) Then I would figure out a way to journal so he cannot read your things; I'd even make it obvious and public that I did not trust him (get a large, real safe and put it in the living room next to where you sit and loudly put your current journal in it every night :-) But he is the one who messed up, not you. Tell him how he has hurt, angered, and disappointed you! But don't give up You because of him, he's not worth it!