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sissy believes in soul mates as most people refer to them, they are people that you click with, they know what you are thinking. They are a reflex without saying a word, someone that finishes a sentence you started.Does anyone believe in soul mates? (state your reasons please)
Does anyone believe in soul mates? (state your reasons please)
Soul mate. That's a tough one.
Two people on the same wavelength, so that each feels or senses what the other one is experiencing? Well, that's mighty rare. Although these people do exist. I've personally known a few of them, and watched them interact. I know a couple that never dated anybody but each other, got married at eighteen, raised a family, and stayed together until the wife died maybe forty years later. The husband told me that they never had an argument in all that time. I think they were true soul mates.
Two people who, although not on each other's wavelength, trust each other enough to argue and share and challenge each other, and recognize that their partner helps them reach their own potential? Still rare. But I've seen this relationship, too. There doesn't even have to be a romantic element involved. They can be siblings (the Wright brothers) or business partners (Sears and Roebuck) or artistic collaborators (Scorsesi and DeNiro), but the essential bond is that they didn't let the other partner get away with much, and acted as reality checks on each other's ideas.
It's interesting to see what happens to one of them when the other leaves the picture. Very often, it's the end of his or her career or influence. The survivors don't have the whetstone to keep their skills sharp.
I'll bite. Do I believe in a predestined mate? Nope. To believe in predestined mates means I'll have to accept the concept of fate, and I can't reconcile predestination with free will.
That said, there are some people with whom you not only click with, but that being with them makes sense (by the way, I am also talking about platonic friendships as just making sense). It's a compatible intensity that might develop into a deeper intimacy, might not. There's a kindredness, a connection that could be perceived as 'soul mates'; but might be a simple compatibility.
Some 'soul mates' pass through our lives quickly, and we learn a lot about ourselves. Others burn steadily through time.
So, for me, 'soul mates' or 'kindred spirits' or whatnots are just terms we use to describe an intense intimacy, a deeper connection that just makes sense as opposed to the traditional understanding of 'having a mate for everyone'.
Just my rambling thoughts.
Athalia;
I really like your use of 'whetstone' to describe the interaction between kindred souls, whether it be platonic, decisive or romantic. One truly does sharpen the other.
I guess my question is can you have more than one soul mate?
A soul mate.
We know everything about each other.
We have never met.
And we are both married.
wow, how wonderfulHaving been married to mine for twenty years, I have to believe in soulmates.
We BOTH felt we were soulmates from the moment we met which was online but not on a dating or sex related site. Fate brought us together as there is no other explanation nor could there be a more perfect union. We were both previously married to people who were decidedly not our soulmates.
There have never been secrets between us. We share the same interests in everything from music, to literature (mostly non-fiction science and history) to hobbies, to passions, to kinks and fetishes.
I can't even entertain the thought of living without her.
I don't see why not. It's a little trickier if it's simultaneous rather than sequential, but if everybody's on the same page, it's a beautiful thing.