Do many of you believe there is such a thing as a ‘soul mate’?
For those who do believe in them, how many believe you have met your soulmate and did it work out…?
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I used to believe in the soulmate concept when I was a teenager and it sounds like a glorious, very romantic thought but in reality a person can't have a perfect match. It's just not a reality.
Relationships take work and even if a couple has so many things in common they will still have obstacles and problems in life which have to be dealt with in a mature way. People don't magically get along all the time every second.
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I have met 3. looking forward to see other 4.
there 7 of them right?
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Call me naive, or a dreamer, but I do believe in the theory of soul mates, that there is only one person out there that is meant for you and who is right for you, but I believe that there are many others who are compatible with you as well... It definitely exists if we are not as selfish as is our human nature to be. Also soul mates can come in different forms I think, not just as in lovers. It can be a friend, famiyl members or brief acquaintances, who came into our lives and made a difference, touched our lives, and therefore are people we will never and can never forget.
I believe that I met my soulmate already. It did work out, but never materialized due unfortunate circumstances. But I feel he is always with me... and the next person who does come in my life will be someone I love but can never have the same connection with as I do with my soulmate.
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I'm not really sure.
One of my friends who has been divorced twice now said that her soulmate was her first husband and she will not love anyone the way she loved him.
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What is a soul mate?
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the person tht i end up marrying will be my soul mate..
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Just a question...do you think its a healthy belief?...
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Thank you Aaana.
To all the guys, Soul mate would be person our wives would be thinking about, the whole time they married to us.
I don't know about you guys But I am going to find my wife's soul mate and kill him.
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possessive or wht dude lol 
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presence of a soul mate, yes, there ideally is this attraction to someone who is likable nd one can only feel it when one is comfortable and confident in taking on the other person's soul mate hood as well.
it is not a one way street ever. or it sadly fails before it is even formed on solid ground. this cannot be found or forced to be, it has to come on its own.
soul mate concept depends on the ethics of engagement with each other and how people intellectually take their developing interaction. likes dislikes, and ideas do not have to be the same.
in fact they should be different to the extent that they are not wrong morally. and they can provide an stimulating area to explore together... so that the relationship can indicate some developmental milestones, if you will.
time and again sadly, courtship period is ignored as a step to something, but whoever fails in sharing a genuine self's impression, during this time, people dishearten this feeling of being accorded a place of a soul mate.
and the price that such a person pays is that he or she never learns to be themselves a good soul mate so that this can work both ways.
human decency is fine in a relationship among opposite gender adult women and men following code of personal self-respect and modesty, but platonic s bordering on second best-ing others or finding an unidentified link with someone, are severely dysfunctional illusionary concepts.
nobility will come as a final seal when the relationship is made lawful by marriage to each other.
best,
Dushwari
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Nope, don't believe in it. Like someone in this thread said, you cannot have a perfect match because everyone is different.
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^ this is true. i agree.
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Nope, don't believe in it. Like someone in this thread said, you cannot have a perfect match because everyone is different.
just because there's not a perfect match between the two of you, doesn't necessarily mean that you can't be soul mates. just because he/she's not exactly the type of guy/girl you dreamed about, doesn't mean that they can't be your soul mate.
what's the definition of a soul mate?
according to wiki - "is a term sometimes used to designate someone with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love, intimacy and/or compatibility."
so who said anything about being perfect? :p
i think you could have a soul mate that you have disagreements with, argue with ..all that good stuff. in the end, if you still love that person and know that they're there for you at the end of it and vice versa...wouldn't you call that a soul mate too?
if soul mate means someone that is willing to put up with all the crap you throw at them, and keep putting up with all of it and not get annoyed with you, then i don't think there's a lot of soul mates out there :p
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^ Good point. But then again, I have seen some who loved their spouse to death and were 'soul mates' and after they separated due to divorce, death etc, that person loved the new spouse even more. So at times like these I wonder, if the concept of 'soul mate' really remains.