Clarity finds its resting place in understanding; while it is indeed mutual it can never remain negotiable, for in its purest phase the bond is completed.
Souls in bodies are patterned in expressions; those that look like the worldly expressions are worldly souls, unredeemed, those that look otherwise ARE otherwise, and the measure of the vow is in the pattern...
Affirmations truthfully expressed sink quickly in the psychic of the soul and linger long in the mix of truth and time to rise again and again in flood of answers as to how and to why.