ending a relationship does not end it

Margli Matthews, an anthroposophical teacher and researcher at Emerson College in England:

Ending a relationship does not end it. It will find its way in time. Each circumstances of our past lives play into each incarnation. Anyone we have a relationship is someone we have had past life experiences with.  Relationships invariably have a karmic element, we share a past, we have met before. And the question is what are we doing now, what do we need to be doing now?

Steiner indicated very strongly that the purpose of relationships is to wake us up, to become more aware of ourselves and more aware of the other. It is time to let the other wake us up!!!!  We are initiators into the mystery of what is it to be human, to be who we are. We need others to awaken this way. The most challenging relationships, if worked with properly, become initiations for us, advancing our karma. 

What is calling me? Not about what one has actually done, but what is calling us forth? Relationships are where we learn this. Not just meditation alone. We need relationships.

Karl Jung called karma our story, just as an aside.