Soul Mates, Cellmates, and Everyone in Between

Me & my cellmate at a fancydress party
before we become real cellmates

I was reading Jeffery A Wands book 'Another Door Opens' and he had a chapter called, "Soul Mates, Cellmates, and Everyone in Between". 

 In the chapter Jeffery writes, "what the spirits have taught me is that those with whom we cross paths always come into our lives for a reason."
He then goes on to write, "sometimes we do meet our soul mate, the person with whom we are meant to share the rest of our life, but sometimes people come into our life at a particular point for a particular reason, and once they've served that purpose, they leave....
People do use us and we use them, because we need to learn some lesson from one another."

This really resonated with me, because at first, I really thought I had found my soul mate for life, but after my children were born it became apparent (although, I should have noticed it before) that there was another cellmate living not too far away as well (my mother-in-law) who wanted to run the cell-block.

Notice the life preserver on the wall behind us?
 Man overboard?

Which I let her do, more or less, for most of the 25-year marriage.
The marriage started to hit the skids when my father-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack in 2010, leaving my mother-in-law and wife devastated.
 The trouble was that my wife, as she puts it, put up walls around herself when her father died.

 Unfortunately for me, those walls kept me out and her and her mother in.
The marriage became very much a case of two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, to reference another Pink Floyd song.

And once I was made redundant from a job, I had for almost 25 years (she survived the cut in her redundancy scare of a very well-paying government job, the same week that I didn't, ironically enough) it became a case of making sure the money didn't run out before I found another job.

But, the real problem when it came to our marriage was that her mother never let her daughter leave her apron strings, which wasn't a big problem when my wife's father was alive, but as soon as he died it was like the mother wanted her daughter back, and the ironic thing is that I could see her going to live at her mother's place for the last year or so, although my wife always insisted she would never move back to her former home, but no I was wrong, she left me to go and rent a house right across the road from her mother's house.
Her mother's house is #17 and my wife's house is number #18, in the same street.

An old time marriage photo taken at Dreamworld, before we were really married. Ironic?

So my soul/cell mate made a jailbreak to go live back with her other cell/soul mate, it seems.

So, I have to agree with Jeffery on the Cellmate/Soul mate analogy in his book, and I would say that there are a lot more cellmates than soul mates on this planet, as the marriage to divorce stats seem to show.

Another door opens?

The only reason I picked Jeffery's book to read in the first place was because of any eerie door I saw not long after my father-in-law passed away, which I related to in this post -
Behind the Door at Byron Bay
But I have to say that since my father-in-law's death, life has definitely become more stranger than fiction.
Also, I would have to agree with the late great Robin Williams in his personal observation on relationships, and loneliness within them.
Love on the Rocks ... a Fool's Journey? 

Trouble is that when you have children together, you will both be cellmates for life, to some degree, even after a jailbreak.

Personally, I don't know how good Jeffery A. Wands is as a psychic, but if you want to listen to his weekly radio shows, you can listen live at this link -
Walk 97.5 Fm Sundays at 9.00pm
And his book Another Door Opens is a must read, as far as I'm concerned.
Also, when I was reading his book, there was a story about Johnny Depp befriending a child cancer patient and I was wondering if he still did this kind of thing anymore?

A few hours after reading that passage, I see a news story about him visiting child cancer patients in a hospital in my hometown of Brisbane.
Johnny Depp surprises young girl

Life is strange, and I'll bet death is too;-)