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RE: Soul Mates - 12/14/2010 9:37:38 PM

Missokyst

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I view soulmates in the same light as kindred spirits. But like sunshinemiss I do think we have been here before, met, loved, and lived with those we may meet again. Soulmates for me is not 2 people, but many people with whom you have a connection that spans time.

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I don't believe in soulmates

I do however believe in kindred spirits....those people we have strong connections and ties to during a certain time in our lives.

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 6:31:51 PM

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Imho, I view the idea of soul mates as a quixotic claim. On the one hand it is one I personally believe in, and gives me hope that I am not truly alone, that one day I will find the right person who will complete my life, fill that little hole that never seems to be able to be shut on your own. However on the flip side it can quickly and easily become a depressing belief; personally I have a fear that I have a soul mate, but I or she will be committed to a life that doesn't include the other. And it can make you second guess a relationship if things aren't completely perfect. But in no way am I against it, it is just that the idea itself is akin to a religious belief, we put our hopes in it, we make wishes on it, and we put faith into something that could be true, but on the other hand, could equally not be true.

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 6:42:29 PM

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Hmm.

Well a looooong time ago before I was born there was a person that really enjoyed themselves.

Sadly they perished but BEFORE they perished they found someone that really enjoyed themselves and were content.

Together they REALLY enjoyed themselves in silence even. Not a word had to be spoken because each knew what the other had said.

So the two split into several, the several split into many and the many into droves and hordes of people.

Each looking to be content with themselves and eventually really happy with another.

My question Valyraen is if she completes you and you find another soul mate what does that make you? OVER NINE-THOUSAND?!!??!??!?!?@

sorry....

the fusion dance makes me all squishy inside.

booyaa... two inside jokes in the same post.

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 6:46:52 PM

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Who says there is just one? I believe there are soulmates. When I met my first love it was like welcoming someone home after not seeing him for years, then we exchanged names. I have met at least 2 other people that had that same vibe of familiarity and affection.

This. It can be friends, even family. Does not have to be a romantic partner.

i buy into the above combined with what SylvereAptLeanan said here:

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the bond was real and the lessons learned were necessary to xir spiritual growth. If two (or more) people are soulbonded, they will reconnect in multiple lifetimes because each has things to teach the other(s) and things they need to learn from the other(s). Sometimes the lessons are pleasant; sometimes they aren't. The mistake was in thinking the other person was the Platonic version of a soulmate instead of recognizing that there may be many people with whom we have a soulbond and those people are not necessarily destined to be the great loves of our lives. Instead, they may be a best friend, a relative, or a mentor. The trick is recognizing when the relationship is meant to be romantic and when it isn't.

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 7:02:02 PM

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I do not believe in soul mates. It sort of makes me sad to think that we are only capable of deeply connecting with one person and one person only. I think that at different stages of our lives different people can fulfill our needs and us theirs, but I think it's a fluid, changing thing, just as life is. The person who was my soul mate at age 20 would not be my soul mate at age 52, I have changed and grown and expect so much more in a partner than when I was young. So if we can have different soul mates, I can go with it. But if it means only one person forever, nah.

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 7:57:18 PM

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Maybe I've been listening to too much Enigma yesterday, or the long nights with nothing to do have made my brain a little loopy (loopier?), but this question popped into my head today while cleaning the guest room sink (cleaner fumes might also have something to do with it...):

Soulmates. What are your thoughts on them? Do you believe in them?

For myself... I'm not sure if I believe in them or not, but I'm balls-to-bones certain that Kitten is my soul mate. I've never met anyone who just... gets me the way she does. She got in past the emotional safeguards before I even realized she was nearing them, and despite making a point of not needing or relying on anyone else, I've come to find that I need her every bit as much as she needs me. As cheesy as it sounds, she completes me.

*sniff* Yeah, definitely the cleaner fumes. Back to grappling with the sink I go!

Many years ago when I was not at all expecting to meet a lady, nonetheless I did. At the time of meeting I did not have a clue that she would be the lady that I had yearned to know on all levels. After a period of time it became quite evident on a mutual level that she and I were indeed bonding on a soul level, in the sense our souls were bonded in trust and a love that became evident to be irrevocable.

After a long period of time and her becoming terminally ill, thus passing on, this bond to this day is evident within. I do not believe I will ever gain such a tremendous depth with another lady as I once did for reasons unspoken within my soul. I remained unwilling to allow another lady to gain any level of intimacy with myself until of late. I have become acquainted with a lovely submissive lady. No soul mate threads though or fireworks. Just a lovely submissive lady that mutually shares common ground with myself, for which she and I are most grateful to begin to share, one to another.

I have not experienced a deep emotional connection that I experienced when I first met My Beloved Companion. Nonetheless I remain willing to enjoy what is mutually offered one another with this recent lady that I am becoming intimately acquainted with. Likewise, I do not regret having loved and was loved in a such a way that my very soul was soothed at the mere listening of my name being called by My Beloved Companion. She had a most unique way of surely reaching past any perceived barriers and into a territory within my soul that I now know shall forever exist.

However, I do not believe that this place within my soul is meant to allow just anyone to gain access to like a swinging door into a room without walls. Instead it remains as pristinely beautiful on that day when it became evident that my soul had been touched in way that enjoined my heart, mind and body unto a dance with a soulful bond with one special beloved lady that I shall forever cherish in a irrevocable bond of love. I have come to realize that some things are a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Take care!

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RE: Soul Mates - 12/16/2010 8:31:38 PM

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I do believe in soulmates as granny as well as my ex are examples of it. Like sunny i do believe in reincarnation as research shows that at times passed away kids are born again in even the same family with at times even remembering parts of previous life at a previous home as the former kid. When i was a kid i experienced myself a weird flashback which might have been a memory into my previous life. However if I met my soulmate (eg my ex) before or not i dont know,however i know that as much as he does almost anything for me, so do i for him. When i try to explain it to friends or colleagues when such topics come up,they dont get it and believe that i still love him,which isnt the case. I truly and deeply care for him which doesnt equal to love him. He just gets me, at times way too early or in time and knows how to respond to it as he knows how i tick and why. At times he already senses what i'm up to despite not telling him. With him it simply is a special connection and just because we arent a couple anymore (he genuinly is happier to be single) did not mean for us that this connection stopped. In my opinion such deep connections are rare and i feel blessed to have him in my life

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