Reply #17: I like your explanation, cassie..... [View All]

You are right about free will, for whenever I have had to face crises in my adult life, I often have had a powerful and mournful feeling that circumstances leading to it were somehow partly due to my not being discerning in the exercise of my free will.
Not a guilt trip feeling at all - just an overpowering intuitive feeling to face an acute awareness of my possible role in the "event" or circumstances.

My horoscope says that I am not the marrying kind - and it is true, I have never married my partner and father of our 2 kids. I am fiercely independent and wary of being "too committed" in a man/woman relationship, (can't conceive of changing my name to a man's! :D) but we have stuck it out together so far and have reaped some wonderful gifts of having in some respects accepted each other and our conditions for remaining in a relationship.
It hasn't been easy, hasn't been the classic marriage or partnership, but unique to our needs and preferences.

DemEx