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2007
MummaBear

Soul Mates

by MummaBearComment Published at 15:1115:115 comments5 comments137 Visits137 VisitsReport
I used to think that when you met your soul mate you got married and lived happily ever after.  That's when I was a little kid though.  As I grew I heard of people saying that their husband/wife was their soul mate.  My parents married young and said they were soul mates so marriage was fail-safe.  They are now divorced, they should have divorced a long time ago but didn't because they wanted their children to leave home first.  Two of us left home, the other was just starting year 7.  His first day in fact.  He had to repeat the grade because of it.  I've been thinking lately.  I don't think you have to meet your soul mate to have a strong marriage.  2 people can be thrown together and so long as they work at it, it will last.  The strongest marriage I know of involves 2 people from very different backgrounds.  They have worked and worked at their marriage and now they are closer than ever.  At first it was tough.  They only got married because she fell pregnant, which 30 years ago was what you did.  Then they were expecting number 2 which ended tragically and brought them closer together.  Number 3 came along and was a Daddy's Girl, and still is.  They had 2 more children and decided to stay together for the kids, but also decided to make the most of their time together and tried to find as many things to do together as they could.  They were never soul mates and had she not fallen pregnant to him 30 years ago they would never have been so much as friends.  It just got me thinking that people can make a marriage work if they are prepared to put in the effort and if they are also prepared to try to enjoy activities the other likes doing.  What do you think? I'm still single lol so I don't really know from personal experience just from the few people around me and from observing those who are divorced and those who are still married.

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August88
5.00 (Excellent) | August 2007 | August88
Re: Soul Mates
Great thought. It must be all those fairy tales and American romance movies that have us thinking we will meet our prince charming and live happily ever after. However in reality there is much more to it then that. You may feel that you meet your soul mate. There is no doubt that there is a strong chemical reaction but once that wears off and you find there is not much in common then it takes work to keep together but it is easier to stay with someone who is your best friend and there was no chemical reactions with. That is my experience anyway.


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Jessgore
5.00 (Excellent) | July 2007 | Jessgore
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And you know soul mates does not have to mean the person you marry.. It could be your best friend since High School.  


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angieh
July 2007 | angieh
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I think people have a hard time distinguishing between Soul Mates and Twin Flames. And I think we have an equally hard time distinguishing if that person indeed is our Soul Mate or Twin Flame!

I think they do exist... but perhaps they are not the people who we originally think because of the tough time we have trying to figure out whether they are our Soul Mate or Twin Flame or not.

But I think friends can be Soul Mates. For example us girls may find a girl friend who we totally connect with on all levels except on the romantic level.


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cheleinkal
5.00 (Excellent) | July 2007 | cheleinkal
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Hhmmm, You've got me pondering.  I'm thinking, that maybe "Soul Mate"is a romantic Hollywood expression that belongs between the pages of Sleeping Beauty and the like rather than in our reality.  I mean really, do we truely deep down belileve that one day we will find the true other half of ourselves?  The fact is that Men's and womens brains work nothing alike at all, we are not meant to mentally match up obviously, the only guys that think like girls are gay and that wont help with population growth LOL.  So maybe all along we are simply supposed to find someone with whom you share a mutual attraction with, who is aproximately the same age so as you change and grow you can hopefully be in the same chapter if not on the same page rather than reading completely different books.  We need to work hard at staying plugged into each other as well as the family unit, building things in commn as we grow and change is work and it is constant and unfortunately in my experience men are not hard wired to understand this, as women are, and then women gget resentful as we're the ones doing all the work and the ment just think.... oh she wants to learn to play golf, of she brought me a beer (never noticing that she sat down with one as well to watch the footy with him until he yells out Ïs there anythign for lunch?"and she's a metre away.    They need it rammed up there nose and implanted into their brains every 4 months or things just don't work.  So no, I don't think there are soul mates that you marry, I think maybe there are soul mates in MATES.  A lot of my girlfriends I am very close with and we can sometimes finish sentances etc. and thats probably the closet to soul mates as you'll get... otherwise it'd be called Soul partner... ...............hhhhmmm, good pondering subject.  well done.


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sinstress
5.00 (Excellent) | July 2007 | sinstress
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I know exactly what you mean! I found my soulmate but it was at the wrong time. We were together for just over a year and it was the best year of my life and I will never forget it or him but because we met at the wrong time in our lives it didn't work. My partner and I had known each other for years before we got together but had never really thought about him in a romantic way, then we lost contact for a couple of years and after that life threw us back together again and within three months of seeing each other I was pregnant! I was on the pill at the time too. Now we're three years on with two kids and still working hard at it but at the end of the day I'm very happy with where I am and what I have got. And then I also look at my parents, they met when Mum was 15 and Dad was 18. A year later they fell pregnant with me and got married not long after and now 30 years on they are still together with three children and I also wonder sometimes if it wasn't for us kids if they would still be together or not.

It's a strange world we live in sometimes!



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