The following was sent to me by e-mail at work. It may help readers to understand their personal relationships.


People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.

When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly.

They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.

They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die.

Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand.

What we must realise is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.

The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.

They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done.

They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.

Believe it!
It is real!
But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.

Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

If I'd have written something like the above which is of a non-CP nature ther'd have been about 15 responses, all calling me a geordie wanker.

Facking southerners. Hypocrites. I Hate them, HATE THEM.

Rant over.

Thank you for sharing this, Gladys. It has had a profound effect on me. I made a list of the people that have been important to me and there is no doubt that they were in the right place at the right time.

Sadly, I have lost touch with all of them now except for one ‘lifetime’ relationship and she is a friend, not a partner.

What about those people who are in wrong place at the wrong time?

I have suffered from a spanking fetish since the age of four and all because of one woman.

I don’t want to be turned on by thoughts of girls getting spanked at school. I just want to be normal.