Do you believe the old adage that there's a soul mate for everybody?

I'm about as close as one can get, but no I don't. I don't want to be a wet blanket, but where would someone like Jeffrey Dahmer find a soul mate? John Wayne Gacy had a wife and Ted Bundy had a girlfriend but if they were truly their soul mates how could they not have known?

I also think there are some more "normal" people who have no desire for a relationship so a soul mate wouldn't exist.

Great thread!
 
I'm about as close as one can get, but no I don't. I don't want to be a wet blanket, but where would someone like Jeffrey Dahmer find a soul mate? John Wayne Gacy had a wife and Ted Bundy had a girlfriend but if they were truly their soul mates how could they not have known?

I also think there are some more "normal" people who have no desire for a relationship so a soul mate wouldn't exist.

Great thread!
Dang that's exactly what I was about to say.
My example was going to mention Hitler and Eva Braun
 

My soul mate and I met in the 2nd grade at age 6. We're both 72 now and both of us think we're linked.........maybe
in previous lives and maybe in future incarnations.
But I don't commit to close relationships and she got tired of waiting for me to change my ways. So she married, divorced and remarried.
Her husband and two sons refer to me as her "boyfriend", but I'm no threat to their marriage and they know that.
However, we still wonder about what might have been.......
 
No, I don’t think people have a soulmate. In all my relationships, both romantic and friendships There is only one person in my life that I never had a disagreement. It was a really good friend of mine that was 12 years older than me and it was the easiest friendship I’ve ever had. Both her and I saw everything the same way and we watched each other‘s kids while she worked and I went to college.

Eventually, we moved to another state, but still saw her and her family at least once a year and talked on the phone. We stayed close until she died at the young age of 59. I’d often thought if she was a man, she would have been my soulmate. She’s been gone 23 years and I still miss her very much.
 
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My soul mate and I met in the 2nd grade at age 6. We're both 72 now and both of us think we're linked.........maybe
in previous lives and maybe in future incarnations.
But I don't commit to close relationships and she got tired of waiting for me to change my ways. So she married, divorced and remarried.
Her husband and two sons refer to me as her "boyfriend", but I'm no threat to their marriage and they know that.
However, we still wonder about what might have been.......
I’m really surprised that you let the “one” get away. I would have a lot of regret.
 
I believe that there are probably many people that we are very closely aligned with, the trick is finding each other at a time when you can each find room in your lives to make that lifelong connection.

“Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.” - P.D. James
 
No...certainly not. Definitely not for me. I can't imagine it. It's a mystical idea,a pleasant fantasy for isolated people
Anyway why call it soulmate? I don't believe in souls as such. Call it lovetwin
 
I believe my wife and I were soulmates, but that doesn't mean we thought alike or shared the same views. There was another kind of chemistry that held us together, and I can't explain it. I don't believe I could ever find anyone I felt that way about again, nor do I want to.
 

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