Parallel Thoughts

Within a couple of months of when my husband and I first started seeing each other (and really knew very little about each other), I would think of something that I needed to talk to him about and would ring him at work at various times of the day, only to have him beat me to the punch and ring me just as I was about to call him with the exact same thought on his mind. It was never about anything that we had discussed earlier and it would always be very specific in detail along the same thought. This happened almost every day for several years. Now after 20 years together it is easy to say that we have gotten to know each other, but back then to have only known each for a few weeks when this first started happening and to know when to call at that precise moment about the exact same thing every day for years was something extraordinary. Our friends all said that we were obviously soul mates. I think of it as parallel lives also. In addition to this, after being married for about five or six years and both us having grown up in the city, we found out that my husband's aunt and uncle had grown up with and were best friends my aunt and uncle who lived about 400 kilometres away in the country. Both of our fathers had grown up in the same region only a short distance apart but did not know each other. It was a mutual friend of ours that I went to school with and my husband worked with that introduced us at her wedding. She was so adament fromt he start that we were perfect for each other. She was so right!