Perhaps this website should be called "Ghostbusters"
W is coming home today and I just wanna grab her and hug her and squeeze her, so I will do just that.
Getting back to the "cultural differences" bit, W lamented as we were embracing that "D6 doesn't love me anymore, because he left to watch cartoons. It is a fact that W would just assume put our love life on hold until D6 finally decides that it is time for him to sleep alone. That shows incredible patience on her part, and perhaps great impatience on my part.
Regarding ghosts. They exist in the sense that they are firmly implanted in W's head. She says that some ghosts live in our current house but that they are fairly benign and don't bother us. I am a Christian so I believe that something is going on out there, but I try to be flexible enough to accept that others, even those close to me, may take a different view.
Even though W believes in fate, she also will work very hard when she is motivated to do so. She works hard to get kids to do homework, to speak Japanese and so forth. She is drop dead gorgeous and works hard to keep up her appearances. So though she believes fate has a big hand in determining our destiny, she sees the value in hard work.