Marriages and friendships that couldn't survive the shift
Marriages end, friendships dissolve, family relationships become strained or estranged. When one person's fundamental reality shifts, relationships built on a shared sense of reality can struggle to survive.
Several accounts describe this as among the most painful aspects of the process, not the shift itself but the relationships lost in its wake, and the loneliness of that loss.
In fact, it took place more, for a couple of years afterward, I assumed that it had taken place during lovemaking with a woman who was my first intimate partner after leaving his work, and my wife had left me shortly before I left Adi Da's work.
And I lost a marriage because of that uh because my husband said I just don't know who you are anymore.
But you said after 20-25 years that relationship ended and I guess you would just say that that's the way the ocean flowed or something.
For example, I became much, much more able to be alone for longer periods of time and not feel like I need a relationship or I need to be around others.