The near-death experience of Mellen-Thomas Benedict: "We are each both male and female. We experience this in the womb and we experience this in reincarnation states. If you are looking for that ultimate soul mate outside of yourself, you may never find it; it is not there. Just as God is not "there". God is here. Don't look "out there" for God. Look here for God. Look through your Self. Start having the greatest love affair you ever had...with your Self. You will love everything out of that."
When I decided to leave my marriage, the exhilaration and freedom made me feel as though I was having a love affair with myself. It was such a Divine state to be immersed in. It was short-lived, however, as the process of leaving, the cutting of the ties that bind, and the enormity of the fight for justice were brutal and took an emotional and physical toll.
Now, I feel happy to say that working with great attention and consciousness for expansion these last number of years has brought me back to this love affair with myself.