Please edit this sentence for me?

Question

Please edit this sentence for me?
I felt that you were gradually feeling closer to me over time because of the sharing of our past relationships and disappointments with each other.
if there is a better word for relationships and disappointments let me know. I am trying to say this I felt that we were getting closer becuase of the fact that we shared our past relationships and disappointments with each other. That is how my boyfriend and i bonded and i wanted to let him know that because we opened up with each other about our fears disappointments it made us be close. Please rewrite that sentence for me with better wording if needed and grammar. Anyone with grammar or writing skills please advise thanks
should I take out the word gradually or does it flow ok. How should I rewrite this, are there any commas needed?
relationships and disappointments dont balance what other words can Iuse with disappointments or with relationships?

Answer 1

"I felt that you were gradually feeling closer to me over time because of the sharing of our past relationships and disappointments with each other."

I felt that sharing our past relationships and disappointments had helped you to feel closer to me.

Answer 2

I felt that you were gradually feeling closer to me over time because of the sharing of our past relationships and disappointments with each other.

I really felt that we gradually became closer over time because of the way we were able to share our past relationships and the problems that we had in them with each other.

Answer 3

In sharing our feelings of disappointments and past relationships, I felt this had gradually brought us closer.

Through sharing our feelings of disappointment and past realtionships, I felt there was a gradual mutual bonding.

Answer 4

I felt that we were becoming closer, having spent time sharing details of our past relationships and disappointments.

Answer 5

relationships:
connection, accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, appositeness, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, consociation, contact, contingency, correlation, dependence, dependency, exchange, friendship, homogeneity, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, pertinency, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, relativity, relevance, similarity, tie, tie-in, tie-up
Disappointments:
bitter pill*, blind alley*, blow, blunder, bringdown, bummer, bust*, calamity, defeat, disaster, discouragement, downer*, downfall, drag, dud, error, failure, false alarm*, faux pas*, fiasco, fizzle, impasse, inefficacy, lemon*, miscalculation, miscarriage, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mistake, no go, obstacle, setback, slip, washout (*=informal or slang)
Gradually is good. The sentence is great!