Time passes, and some things never change. The truth is that, regardless of everything, what remains is our own company and ourselves. No matter how connected we may be, the center is within us.
We need to deal with every feeling, we need to interpret every thought, we need to be whole individually first, before we can have a relationship that will truly multiply the strength of both, and not create emotional crutches, attachments, and co-dependencies.
A karmic relationship is not necessarily bad, but it primarily serves as a mirror, so that we can truly see ourselves—our beliefs, our behaviors, our feelings, and our thoughts—that we create toward ourselves and toward others.
Everything in life is learning; we are shaped through ignorance, and only through wisdom do we free ourselves from the world of illusions. This remains true in relationships, and it is yet another area of life that exposes the deviations we continuously insist on repeating.
The problem is not in making mistakes; the problem is in persisting in them. The lack of awareness, the lack of clarity, the lack of prayer and vigilance, causes us to continue making mistakes in something we could have already overcome.
Fragments of an awakened soul 