I hope you will tolerate my thinking in this matter. I am not one to argue the existence of "soul mates", but I would like to propose that the contemplation and romanticization of the idea has left many people alone and lonely.
The true definition of "Love" is what and how we do things for another and others in general especially God. The notion of soul mates is one where love requires nothing from us towards another because it comes without sacrifice or effort.
From the perspective of "commitment" and "true giving" the "soul mate" requires little of either while a traditional mature relationship of vows requires both and the relationship in which both parties are committed givers has the blessing of a "trust" that develops and is earned through mechanical day in and day out efforts to maintaining the relationship and home.
In the latter, something develops that the soul mate relationship will never truly have, and that is the bond of trust that the other half is not sustained by an ethereal feeling of euphoria and excitement, but is bound by an inner sense of commitment to the other, for better or worse. That, IMHO is LOVE demonstrated and trumps soul mate!
Don't mean to be a kill joy. But perhaps the concept of "soul mates" is a Satanic doctrine intended to lure many away from the commitments I mentioned while they search the "ethereal plane" for that "emotional nirvana"
The true definition of "Love" is what and how we do things for another and others in general especially God. The notion of soul mates is one where love requires nothing from us towards another because it comes without sacrifice or effort.
From the perspective of "commitment" and "true giving" the "soul mate" requires little of either while a traditional mature relationship of vows requires both and the relationship in which both parties are committed givers has the blessing of a "trust" that develops and is earned through mechanical day in and day out efforts to maintaining the relationship and home.
In the latter, something develops that the soul mate relationship will never truly have, and that is the bond of trust that the other half is not sustained by an ethereal feeling of euphoria and excitement, but is bound by an inner sense of commitment to the other, for better or worse. That, IMHO is LOVE demonstrated and trumps soul mate!
Don't mean to be a kill joy. But perhaps the concept of "soul mates" is a Satanic doctrine intended to lure many away from the commitments I mentioned while they search the "ethereal plane" for that "emotional nirvana"
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