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Before & After
Five anonymized before-and-after stories from clients who came to me for help reuniting with someone they loved, told honestly, with names and details changed to protect their privacy.
Every story in this post is real in the sense that matters: a client lived through it and told it to me in their own words. What has changed are the names, the cities, the small identifying details that would make any one of these people recognizable to a neighbor or an ex. I am telling you that plainly up front because trust in this line of work is earned in the details, and I would rather lose a little drama in the telling than let you read this as something it is not. These are client-reported experiences, shared with permission, not audited case files or clinical data. Treat them the way you would treat a friend telling you what happened to her, not the way you would treat a research study.
I am Baba Ali. I have worked as a spiritual practitioner for more than thirty years, trained from childhood by my grandmother in the Serer and Wolof traditions of Senegal, and I have sat across from more than 5,000 clients in that time. Most came to me at the lowest point of a relationship: after a breakup, after a divorce filing, after months of silence from someone they still loved. About 95% of the clients who complete a full working with me report the reunion or outcome they came for. That is a real number I stand behind, and it is also not the same thing as a guarantee for any one person reading this today. Your situation is not a statistic. It is a specific set of two people, two histories, and two wills, and no honest practitioner tells you otherwise. I say this at the start rather than the end because I would rather you read everything that follows with that caveat already in place than discover it as a disclaimer tacked on afterward.
A Note on Privacy Before You Read Further
Every story below is client-reported and anonymized: names, locations, occupations, and small circumstantial details have been changed or blended so that no individual client can be identified. What stays true to life is the emotional shape of what happened and the honest outcome, including the parts that were slow, uncertain, or hard.
Why I’m Sharing These Stories
People considering this kind of work almost always ask the same question before anything else: does this actually happen for real people, or is it something practitioners say to get you in the door? It is a fair question, and I would ask it myself in your position. Numbers alone do not answer it. A percentage on a page is easy to write and hard to feel. A story, told honestly with its rough edges left in, tells you something a statistic cannot: what the waiting actually felt like, what changed and when, and what the person on the other end of it had to do themselves to get there.
So this post is five stories, not fifty, and I chose them because together they cover most of the situations that walk through my door: a marriage close to ending, a blocked ex who went cold, a couple separated by distance and circumstance, a marriage strained by infidelity, and a person who found real love later in life than she expected to. I left out the details that would make any of them traceable to a real person. I kept in the parts that were hard, slow, or uncertain, because leaving those out would make this page a sales pitch instead of a true account, and that is not what I am here to write. A tidy story with every rough edge sanded off would be easier to write and less useful to you.
01The Marriage at the Edge of Divorce
Before: A client I will call Renee, a woman in her late forties from the Midwest, came to me nine days before a divorce filing deadline she and her husband had both signed off on. Twenty-two years of marriage, two grown children, and a slow drift that had turned into resentment neither of them knew how to name out loud anymore. She was not asking me to talk her husband out of the divorce. She said she had accepted it was probably over and wanted to know, honestly, whether there was anything left worth trying before she signed.
Timeframe: A reading, a working completed over five days, and then six weeks of watching what unfolded.
After: The filing did not happen on schedule. Her husband asked for two more weeks to think, which he had never done in eight months of separation talk. Renee told me later that what shifted first was not him, it was her own dread about the conversation lifting enough that she could speak to him without flinching, and that changed the tone of every exchange that followed. They are still married. She describes the marriage now as “rebuilt, not repaired,” which she means as a compliment to the version of it they have now rather than a return to the old one.
02When an Ex Goes Silent, and Blocks You
Before: A client I will call Marcus, mid-thirties, reached out after his ex-girlfriend blocked him on every platform following a breakup he described as sudden and, in his words, “not fully explained.” Three months of total silence. No mutual friends willing to pass along a message. He had read enough forum advice to try three different burner accounts to reach her, which, predictably, made things worse.
Timeframe: A working over six days, with no direct contact attempted by him during that window.
After: On day nine after the working closed, she unblocked him on one platform, without a message attached. He did not reach out first. Four days after that, she sent a single text asking how he was doing. Their conversation over the following month was careful and slow, nothing like the relationship they’d had before. They agreed to meet in person about six weeks after that first text. Marcus told me the version of the relationship they have now moves at a pace that would have felt frustratingly slow to the person he was before, and that the slowness is the reason it has held.
03Love Across Three Time Zones
Before: A client I will call Priya, late twenties, had a relationship that started strong during a semester abroad and then stalled once she moved back to the United States and he stayed in Southeast Asia. They stayed in touch, but the messages thinned out over eight months to a “happy birthday” text and not much else. She wanted to know whether it was worth pursuing or whether she was holding onto something that had already quietly ended.
Timeframe: A reading first, since long-distance and fading-contact cases need a different kind of clarity than an acute breakup. Working completed over seven days.
After: He messaged her first, unprompted, twelve days after the working, something he had not done in months. The conversation that followed was longer and warmer than any exchange they’d had in almost a year. It took another four months of video calls and one visit before he moved to the same city as her, a decision she is careful to say was his own and not something anyone could have forced. She told me the hardest part of the whole process was not the ritual work, it was trusting the timeline enough to stop checking her phone every ten minutes.
04What Was Left After the Affair
Before: A client I will call David, early forties, came to me after his wife discovered an affair he’d had eighteen months earlier and had already ended on his own before it came to light. She had moved into the guest room and was, in his words, “one bad week away from a lawyer’s office.” He was not asking me to erase what he had done or hide anything further from her. He wanted help repairing what could honestly be repaired, and he was clear that he understood if it could not be.
Timeframe: This case took the longest of the five, about eleven weeks from first consultation to a stable reconciliation, with two separate workings spaced a month apart.
After: His wife agreed to couples counseling in week three, something she had refused twice before. The spiritual work, in a case like this, is not a substitute for that counseling or for the accountability David owed her directly. It ran alongside it. By week eleven she had moved back into their bedroom. David describes the marriage now as more honest than it was before the affair, which he says is both the hardest and the truest thing he has ever admitted about his own marriage.
05A Soulmate Found at Fifty-Three
Before: Not every story here is about reuniting with someone specific. A client I will call Denise, fifty-three, widowed for six years, came to me not to get an ex back but to ask whether love was still possible for her at all. She had tried dating apps twice and quit both times within a month, describing the whole process as “a part-time job I didn’t apply for.”
Timeframe: A working over five days, followed by roughly ten weeks of ordinary life before anything notable happened.
After: She met a man at a pottery class she’d signed up for on a whim, the kind of ordinary Tuesday encounter that shows up in this kind of story more often than any dating app match does. They have been together for a year and a half now. Denise told me she almost did not go to that class because she was tired that evening, and she brings that up whenever she talks about the whole experience, as a reminder to herself that showing up, even on the tired days, was half of what made room for it.
What These Stories Have in Common
Read back to back, these five cases have almost nothing in common on the surface. A marriage of two decades. A blocked ex. A relationship stretched across an ocean. An affair. A widow starting over in her fifties. But underneath the specifics, the same three ingredients show up in every case that resolves well, and their absence is usually what I find when a case stalls.
The first is patience with the timeline. Every client above had a moment, sometimes several, where nothing seemed to be happening and the temptation to force contact, send one more message, or repeat the working out of anxiety was strong. The ones who resisted that urge and let the working settle over its full three-to-seven-day window, and the days that followed it, were the ones who reported the results they came for. The ones who repeat or rush the work tend to muddy it instead of speeding it up.
The second is honesty during consultation, including the uncomfortable parts. David did not hide the affair or minimize it to make himself look better in our first conversation. Renee did not pretend she had done nothing to contribute to the drift in her marriage. That honesty is not just good for the client’s conscience, it is what lets a reading actually locate the real block instead of the one the client assumes is there. I cannot work with what a client will not admit to me.
The third is a willingness to do inner work alongside the spiritual work, not instead of it and not as an afterthought to it. Marcus did not send a fourth message from a new account while he waited. Priya worked on trusting the process rather than checking her phone every ten minutes, by her own account not a small thing for her. David and his wife sat in counseling sessions that had nothing to do with me directly. None of these people treated the working as a substitute for their own effort. They treated it as support for effort they were already making, which is the only way I have ever seen this kind of work hold over time.
The rain does not force the seed to grow. It only clears the way for what was already waiting underground. — Senegalese Proverb
What These Stories Do Not Promise
I want to be as direct here as I was about privacy at the start of this post, because this section matters more. These five stories are not a promise about your situation, and I would be doing you a disservice if I let you read them that way.
Every case is different, in ways that are not always visible from the outside. Two clients can describe breakups that sound nearly identical and get different outcomes, because the actual history between the two people, the reasons underneath the reasons, is never fully captured in a summary. I have had cases that looked simple on paper move slowly, and cases that looked complicated resolve faster than expected. I do not fully control that, and no honest practitioner claims to.
Free will is real, and it is not something spiritual work overrides. My tradition does not work by controlling another person against their own will, and I decline requests that ask for exactly that. What this work does is clear obstacles, old resentment, closed communication, fear, so that a genuine connection has a clearer path to reach the outcome it was already capable of reaching. If two people are not meant to reconcile, no amount of working manufactures that outcome from nothing, and I tell clients this plainly rather than letting them believe otherwise.
The 95% figure I mentioned earlier reflects outcomes across more than three decades and thousands of clients who completed the process I recommended for their situation, including the reading, the working, and the follow-through on their own end. It is not a probability that applies uniformly to every possible circumstance, and it is not a number I use to pressure anyone into moving faster than they are ready to. A consultation exists specifically to give you an honest read on your own situation rather than a generic percentage.
Wondering What a Reading Would Show for Your Own Situation?
A consultation is the honest next step, not a sales pitch. I will tell you plainly what a reading shows and whether spiritual work is the right fit for what you’re facing.
How to Think About Your Own Situation
If you read these five stories looking for the one that matches yours exactly, I want to gently redirect you. The value in reading them is not finding a template to copy. It is noticing the pattern underneath: patience, honesty, and a willingness to do your own part alongside any spiritual support you bring in. Those three things apply to nearly every situation I see, whether it resembles Renee’s marriage, Marcus’s blocked number, Priya’s long distance, David’s repair work, or Denise’s late-in-life second chance.
Start by being honest with yourself about what actually happened in your relationship, not the version that makes you look best, and not the version that makes the other person the villain. That honesty is what a reading needs to actually locate your real block, and it’s the same honesty that will serve you in any conversation you eventually have with the person you’re hoping to reconnect with.
Then look at your own timeline expectations. If you are three days out from a breakup and already Googling “how fast can a spell work,” that urgency is understandable and also, in my experience, the single biggest thing that gets in a client’s own way. The ritual itself takes three to seven days. What happens after that varies by case, sometimes days, sometimes weeks, occasionally longer when there is real repair work to do on both sides, the way there was for David. Reading these five stories should widen your sense of what a realistic timeline actually looks like, not narrow it to whichever story resolved fastest.
Finally, consider whether you are willing to meet spiritual support with effort of your own, the way every client in this post did. If the answer is yes, a consultation is a reasonable next step. If you are not there yet, that is worth being honest about too. I would rather tell a client to wait a month and do their own inner work first than take on a case I do not believe is ready, and I say that to people in consultation regularly.
For more detail on realistic timing, my guide to how long love spells take to manifest walks through the range clients typically experience after a working closes. And if you are still deciding whether this kind of work is right for you at all, my honest answer to whether love spells really work is a good place to start before you reach out.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these real client stories or made-up examples?
They are real experiences reported to me by actual clients, with names, locations, and identifying circumstantial details changed or blended to protect their privacy. They are not audited case files, and they are not presented as guaranteed outcomes for anyone else’s situation.
Why don’t you show verified reviews or star ratings for these stories?
Because doing so would imply a level of formal verification these anonymized narratives do not have. I would rather tell you honestly what these stories are, client-reported and anonymized, than dress them up with review markup that overstates what they represent.
How long did these clients wait before seeing results?
It varied. The ritual itself is completed within three to seven days in every case, but visible results ranged from about nine days after the working to roughly ten to eleven weeks in the more complicated cases, like the marriage affected by infidelity. I discuss realistic timing more fully in my guide to how long love spells take.
Do all of Baba Ali’s clients get the reunion they came for?
No, and I would not want you to believe that. Across more than three decades and 5,000-plus clients, about 95% of those who complete a full working report the outcome they came for. That leaves a real percentage of cases where the outcome is different, often because free will on the other side genuinely points elsewhere. I discuss this honestly in every consultation.
What should I watch for after a working, based on these stories?
Small, ordinary signs tend to come first: a message after silence, a shift in someone’s own mood or dread lifting, an unplanned invitation you almost decline. My guide to signs a love spell is working walks through the pattern in more detail, day by day.
Is spiritual work a substitute for having an honest conversation with my ex or partner?
No. In every story above, the client still had to show up honestly, in conversation, in counseling, or simply in how they carried themselves. Spiritual work clears obstacles and opens a path. It does not have the conversation for you. That part is, and always will be, yours to have.
A Final Word From Baba Ali
I chose these five stories because they are ordinary in the way that actually matters. No lightning bolt moments, no dramatic confrontations at an airport. A message that finally arrived. A husband asking for two more weeks. A pottery class someone almost skipped. That is what real reunion tends to look like when you strip away the version people imagine before it happens. Quiet, gradual, and built on both spiritual work and a person’s own honest effort.
If you are somewhere in the middle of your own version of one of these stories right now, waiting, wondering whether it’s over, unsure whether to reach out again, I understand how heavy that waiting feels. These stories will not tell you exactly what will happen for you. What they can tell you is that the outcome you’re hoping for has happened for real people in situations not so different from yours, and that patience, honesty, and your own effort were part of every one of them. If you’d like an honest read on your own situation, the first conversation costs you nothing but the truth about what actually happened. That much I can promise, whatever the reading ends up showing.
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