When you have been “good” for years—stayed loyal to your husband for a long time, been a helpful partner, fulfilled the demands of your career, showed up for your friends—it’s totally natural for something deep inside you to crave wildness and darkness and things that you haven’t been able to even acknowledge for ages. Your soul might want to let in some of the seemingly BAD emotions: anger and resentment and selfishness. I’m not talking about kicking kittens, either. I’m talking about acknowledging a desire to be alone, to be seen as a separate person, to go to a party without a mate by your
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