I have received allot of feedback from this and this article. The most recent one being displayed bellow, and thus I have decided to revisit the topic of soul mates.

If God had meant for only one person in the whole wide world to fulfill another person’s emotional needs, as in a soulmate, then I think there would be no need for such a person called a best friend, or partner-for-life, or lover.After reading your little article, Nick, I’ve actually sat down and given it some thought.And the conclusion I’ve arrived at is that there has to be more than one soulmate in a person’s life and ideally this person is also your spouse but if not, that doesn’t make the spouse any less worthy because as we both agree, every human beings has many needs and for a single person to fulfill all the needs is almost impossible.Thus, a spouse may provide certain needs that a soulmate may never be able to do so and vice versa.A blessed person is the one who has both and recognizes it at the same time.Furthermore, how does one actually define a soulmate?Subjectivity rules here.Many a times, isn’t the spouse already acting as one, providing the very much needed emotional support?So why let ourselves be bogged down by definitions?

Well, my responce is this. True, we should not be bogged down with definitions of soul mates. What makes a soul mate to me, may definatly not be a soul mate to you. In life everybody has needs, one of the greatest need I find, is the assurance of love and of acceptance. Steven Curtis Chapman sang a song called “I will be here”, a song that speaks of an assurance a man gives to his wife. I am not married, and not even dating at the moment (hint ladies!!), so I can’t really comment on marrige. I do however have many friends, and a soul mate or two in my life, and I will say that they didn’t become my soul mate just because we made an agreement to do so. There were no vows, nor were rings exchanged. We became soul mates out of the sharing of our lives, the sharing our pain, our joys, our failures and our many embaressing moments. In other words, they transformed into my soul mate, because they gave me that assurance of love and acceptance. I believe that a spouse is your soul mate, because I would like to believe that he/she gives you some form of assurance in your life. I still hold on to my theory that they will never be completly satisfied by any one Man/Woman. Only God can truely make us complete. So i guess my conclution, is that a soul mate is in the eye of the beholder. And In my eyes, Jesus is my ultimate soul mate

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