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I almost blush to see what I was willing to share in my initial threads.  You do me an honor to find it now and reply.

Amazing to think it was over 6 years ago.. much has changed, more has remained the same.  Yet within the tedious sameness of that which is dissatisfactory, I can report a growing confidence and serenity that has been born of integration.

Marooned and isolated as never before, companioned with someone who constantly pushes the boundaries of my psychological scope of understanding, I learn how vacuous my prior understanding was, of what love is.  She is wonderful, of course.  It’s just that, she provides me abundantly with what I need for spiritual evolution, and virtually nothing of what I wanted for worldly happiness.  It is a continual source of wonder to me, how little I previously grasped of the long-term ramifications of my choices.