Psychic Humor

My whole darn family believes in life after death, psychic phenomena, ghosts and a few of us have a healthy respect for aliens and life on other planets. I have no problem asking an angel to help me find a parking spot, my keys and in desperate times, concert tickets. No, I am not ashamed about the tickets. I only asked for help landing front row seats to see the Rolling Stones at Fenway Park in Boston. Just that once!

I realize my belief in all this stuff offends a lot of people, but I was born and raised with it, my kids were born and raised with it and my grandchildren have been born and raised with it. My mother claimed it was in our blood. Our Scottish roots make us sensitive to this stuff she would say. I couldn't distrust someone with the name of Patty MacLean now could I?

When I first dated my now husband, he gave me absolutely no clue whether or not he was in or out on the things I understood to be valid. I didn't want to scare him away, so I tread lightly about the subject until I thought he was comfortable with me. I would drop little hints about astrology and star sign compatibility just to feel him out. He was responsive to that so I moved on to other topics like tarot cards and mediums. He was okay with that, too. In fact, he said his Aunt use to read cards for him when he was a kid. Oh Boy! A match made in heaven. I was excited.

I felt so safe with him that I was going try to introduce some of my more complex beliefs to him like life after death and reincarnation. I was psyched! Pardon the play on words. I was dating a guy who didn't get queasy at the mention of spirits or horoscopes or telepathy. Yippee for me! And then the bubble burst.

My perfect guy left me a note one day, shortly after an intimate discussion about the idea that we may have been together in another lifetime. It simply said, "YOU ARE MY SOLE MATE! SOLE?" I was devastated. He was tricking me into thinking he had an interest in the things I did. He was a fake I thought. That's just great. I am the world's biggest fool. Where were my guides and angels when I needed them? Why didn't they warn me?