Boy! I would have to say I was definitely married in a past life. This particular past life had a huge lesson and in this lifetime, has brought an even bigger blessing to me.

It all started when I was engaged to a man who I knew had way too much charisma for his own good. He, unfortunately was also known as a “player”. Even though I knew this and saw how he was, I also thought that he was my “soulmate” and felt that the love of a good woman would change him … don’t we all? Well, it didn’t and I went through one of the darkest periods of my life. When I just couldn’t look away anymore, I found out it was a woman who reminded him of his ‘fiancée’! (I bet you can see all the red flags in the above … but I was ‘in love’.)

Fast forward three years after of celibate dating … I was working as a Production Floor Manager in Silicon Valley, California and had to make a call to a vendor who was engineering a special part for us. When I called I was told by the Manager who answered the phone that the engineer was not in and I replied, “Oh crap! Have you ever had a Friday that felt like a Monday and just wanted to get into your car and drive to Oregon?” His reply was, “Oregon? What do you know of in Oregon?” So I told him how I’d used to take vacations with my ex-fiancé there. Read the rest of this entry »