Have you ever longed to know what the future holds? Do you want to know whether or not he'll come back? When your life is turned upside down, when you lose the anchor that marriage provides, you, like me, may be inexorably drawn to storefronts with crystal balls in the window. Actually that’s how psychics survive, by preying on the man troubles that afflict so many women like us. Don't be embarrassed about this not uncommon female addiction. Despite a lifelong skepticism about anything that even hints of hype or charlatanism, I long ago became hooked on psychic readings. It is a guilty pleasure that I am loath to admit to my more cynical friends. When I’m under stress and no one is watching, I skulk into storefronts with tarot cards in the window, seeking a psychic fix.

If you pursue your psychic fixes for fun, and don't actually depend on the predictions coming true, go ahead and indulge. If you find anything harmless that alleviates your pain girlfriend go for it. After I was dumped I went back on the psychic circuit. Stephanie, a local reader whose predictions had come true in the past told me with total confidence that my ex would break up with his girlfriend and want to come back to me, but by that time I would have moved on. Well that never happened, actually he married the girlfriend, but by that time I had managed to move on anyway. Even if what she predicted never came true, she made me feel better during those desperate moments when I just wasn’t ready to accept reality. If you look around you'll find a wise psychic who will give you a good pep talk or a bit of cheap psychotherapy in addition to her reading. Stephanie, a motherly type who is in her sixties like me would give me a lecture about how us older women have to stop depending on men. The lecture helped more than the reading.