Friendship or Therapist

I am out-and-about doing my ‘thing’, whatever that may be. I don’t know if I’m still working for the state or not, I don’t think so. At any rate, I go to visit a guy. He’s not home, so I stay a while and visit with his wife. She seems to need somebody to talk with.

We sit in her kitchen and make small talk waiting for her husband to return. Soon, her daughter comes in. The daughter looks remarkably like her. The daughter is well-dressed, very attractive, like the mother, but can’t talk, or is too shy. I wonder which.

The woman at first seems happy with her marriage, but gradually opens up and begins telling me her problems. Her unhappiness began when the couple first met and they were dating. Her future husband told her one evening/night, “I’m going to knock you up;” and he did. She hates him for this. He really is a nice guy, but she can’t get over how their relationship began.

Now the woman is afraid of what her husband might do if he finds us together. I’m surprised; after all we’re just talking. I think there are other reasons she is afraid of her husband as well.

The woman’s brother comes in and joins us at the table. For some reason she is afraid of him too. She seems inordinately paranoid to me. Her husband and brother are close friends and do many things together. She feels trapped.

I ask the spirit world what year it is: ‘2007’ flashes through my mind. I want to help this woman but don’t know if I should. I feel I have been brought to this place as a friend for her and maybe as a therapist or healer. This is obviously not my profession. Plus, for some reason, this situation feels ‘too close to home’. Why, I don’t know. I don’t think I have strong feelings for this woman, although she is attractive and the normal yearning desire for her body is present.