She believed in God. Changing only recently, as the danger to earth pulls her toward the ancient earth-religions. Plus the academic feminism she's exposed to with its vegetal interest in mother deities.
God and reincarnation. Her past-lives regression experience: take responsibility for this life.
Like gravity, the force of my feelings pulls me in these directions, at first simply because that's where she is, later because they begin to resonate independently.
I hate being apart.