<human>: My girlfriend and I have been together for about 4 months now. I've had a very rough childhood (mum being alcoholic, parents divorcing, auntie dying). Basically, a load of saddening and traumatic shit happened in the space of a few years.
It's going to be hard to open up to her about these things as she would be the first person outside of family to know about this stuff. I haven't even told my closest friends.
She has things that she wants to tell me. She wants to open up to me but doesn't know what to say, I know it'll help if I took the lead and talked to her about stuff but I don't know how to do it without scaring her. She's met my family and she likes them. I just don't want her opinion changing about my mum, who hasn't touched alcohol in 3 years.

Sorry for the poor formatting, any advice would be great. 

Thanks,

Eddie.

(Is that a normal ending? Sorry I know it's not a letter)

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: We've both had issues in the past which we want to talk about. What's the best way to go about this? We trust each other but it's just difficult to talk about these things.