it's very true.  we've probably lived many many lives with our closest friends & family before.  there are many examples where people can't get along for "no reason," yet they had trouble in past lives getting along too (or vice versa - people are best friends in lives over and over).  i remember one story where a lady had trouble getting along with a man she was dating - he had murdered her in a past life. 

anyway yeah we tend to move in soul "groups."  also there's the soulmate thing... but not everybody incarnates at the same time as their soulmate.  you can have a happy marriage without them being your soulmate.

journey of souls is a good book to read about this subject.  he even graphs out one woman's soul group, made of her closest family and friends.   it's not a hard and fast rule though - your family could be more "strangers," i.e. not in your soul group.  also in that book he goes into levels of spiritual maturation, so a child could be more spiritually mature than their parents.

thanks for that link, kyo.  i'm going to read some of those.  i like reading past life regressions.

Hi LoveMe-
The IARRT has tried to get data on prior associations carried forward. Based on their data, I'm told that we travel in groups of about 50-60 or so, although I'm inclined toward twice that number for personal reasons. Very often people in regression report that their present husband, daughter, father, best friend etc is from a prior life where they were emotionally close. Less often we find a pattern where people have been adversaries for several incarnations. I had one case in which a woman had waited for an entire lifetime until her husband had been reborn to go after him. It seems that he had left for the Korean war and failed to return. She pined away and died. He passed another rather short lifetime, and then on his next rebirth, still as a young man, she reincarnated and attempted to rebuild the relationship that they once had. She was quite angry, and it took a bit of therapy to quiet things down.

dave

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also they can be *both* adversaries and a lover at the same time.   not all relationships are meant to be flowers & roses.   there is some detail on that in one of the woman's regressions here - http://infinity.usanethosting.com/Heart.Of.God/WayOfKarma/index.htm

Actually, Patrick, those "former husbands" (and all the rest) might have been your children (or parents) while you were her son or brother etc in a former incarnation - we seem to change relationships and sex as fast as we change clothing.

d