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[i_luff_honey]

does anybody believe in soul mates??? what are your thoughts???

[andy hughes]

Abolutely. My soul mate in my first serious girlfriend. We went out together when I was seventeen and she was sixteen. She is the keep of my secrets, and I am keeper of hers - the things you'd tell no-one else, ever. Thirty-two years on, she is the one I would call if I needed someone to talk to. Soul mate for ever, until one of us dies.

[zgma]

No, I don't believe in soul mates.  I think the idea of soul mates makes people think that there is one person out there with whom you will automatically have a perfect relationship, and I think that this idea makes people unhappy with their real relationships that will always need to be worked on.

 

I' m much happier with the model that there are any number of people out there with whom you can create a loving, communicative, sexy relationship, as long as you do the work to create it.

[woofgang]

Absolutely. I married mine 30 years ago

[i_luff_honey]

thankyou guys! i also believe in soul mates and ihope in time that i will find mine in my bf weve been together 4a year now and i love him with all my heart.

[Tarea]

I think you need to examine the word to understand the meaning- does the term "mate" not refer to a friend or someone close to you?  I think the big misconception is that a soulmate is someone that you have some sort of romantic/sexual relationship with.

I think that a soul travels through many lives and will inhabit many different bodies- when one body dies, the soul finds a new body in the form of an infant.  Have you ever heard of someone being referred to as an "old soul"- this would imply that their soul has lived many lives prior to thier current one.

 A "soulmate" is another soul that you've had contact with in another lives- someone that travels with you through time and space- another soul that travels in the same circles with you through many lives.  I beleive that the nature of that relationship changes with each new "life"- but the link to one another remains constant through time.