What do you call a soul mate?

Someone who will love me for everything I am - and not just my good side. My bad side too. Someone I can share anything with and not regret it. Someone who can make me feel good in my own skin, someone that can write a book about me. Someone that will stay with me through good or bad. Someone that's happy to be with me. A person I can talk to for the longest time and he'd still sit there and listen. Someone I can talk to over a phone - even when I have nothing to say - he'd still stay on the line. Someone that will respect me and my family. Someone that I can respect. A guy who isn't afraid to show himself to me. A guy that can read me loud and clear and know when somethings up. Someone I wanna grow old with. haha

I can go on and on about this. But, that's all I got for now. lol

someone I can share everything with and when I say everything, I mean everything. for instance, he should be my lover, my partner in crime, my best friend, my better half. someone who I know I can't count on, who'll always be by my side 'til I die, or vice versa should he pass away first. someone I can share life's good and bad experiences with. someone who will never tire of the same repetitive stories I tell him. someone I can share my kitchen with. lol this is very important to me. someone with whom I can watch my children with and grow old with him and he'd still be the wonderful person that I married. *sigh* just thinking about my soul mate if he actually exists is making feel a little dreamy. lol >_<

First of all, do you know how you yourself define what a soul mate is to you? This is someone
you meet where you share many interests, so much respect for one another, though you just
met, you both want to develop and explore each other and life together. It sounds sorta
mushy, but you let each other explore life they need and want to.

Ha ha. my definition is very long and weird but here goes. I believe in reincarnation, but not like most people who are not familiar with it think. Seems most people think you live as one person then are reborn as someone else, then reborn as someone else. (I promise this has a point, lol.) I don't believe that. I believe our souls are sort of recycled after we die. Split apart and then remade out of the pieces of many other souls for lack of a better explanation.

Now for soul mates. I don't believe in the idea that there is only one person who is your one true soul mate. I think that's just a little ridiculous. To believe that there is ONE person out of the ENTIRE WORLD that is meant for you? (I want to interject here that I am happily married to a man I consider to be one of my soul mates so it's not because I am single and bitter or anything, lol.) But really, what would be the odds that you would ever even MEET, much less end up together if that were the case?!

I believe that there are many possible soul mates out there for everyone and they may not just be the opposite sex. I know many of us have had a friend of the same sex who is just so close to us that it's almost inexplicable. To me, that's a soul mate too. Someone who touches your soul and profoundly affects your life in a positive way that can never be forgotten. This is where the first part comes in. I believe that our soul mates are those people that share a piece of the same soul as us. This is what makes that bond so much more intense and special than any other. You can create an amazing friendship or relationship without being soul mates, but when you are soul mates it just happens. There is just something between you that can't be denied or explained. Just my opinion though.