Back when I was married, my ‘wasband’ (my ex-husband), who was not exactly known for his interest in the metaphysical or ‘spiritual’, made us an appointment with Roxanna, an intuitive/psychic he’d heard about while we were on retreat in Mexico. She had us rub a bouquet of aromatherapy oils into the palms of our hands and smell them with our eyes closed for a few minutes, and then…
“You get frustrated,” she told him “and you bring it to the relationship. And Andrea tries to fix it. That is really frustrating, isn’t it?”
He agreed (a bit too enthusiastically).
“You need to leave him to his frustrations,” she told me. “They are positive, even though they don’t seem like it at the time. They’re what he needs in order to move to something better.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the wayMarcus Aurelius
