What’s the difference between a soulmate and a life partner?
Are you currently engaged in a stable and loving relationship? If you are, do you think that your partner is also your soulmate? Do you believe in the concept of two souls being destined for each other? Does fate play a part in determining who we fall in love with? These are very complicated questions that have puzzled the human race for many years. Whatever your stance is on the ideas of soulmates matters greatly on how you approach your relationships.
How you view your boyfriend/girlfriend is a result of your perspective on relationships in general. Perhaps you see your boyfriend as someone who adds culture and enrichment to your life. Or maybe perhaps you see your girlfriend as a reliable partner with whom you can imagine spending the rest of your life with as you face the world’s struggles together. In some cases, maybe you see them in both respects. Whatever the case, there is a difference between being someone’s soulmate and being someone’s life partner.
Sometimes, a person can be both your soulmate and life partner at the same time. Sometimes, that isn’t the case, but you should remember that it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s all a matter of perspective and how you choose to approach your relationship in order to make it work the best way possible.
Here are 4 things that make a soulmate different from a life partner:
1. Short-Term Growth vs Long-Term Development
Soulmates are there to constantly enrich your life and add depth to your being. They are there to encourage you to pursue your little passions and feed your soul. They help guide you through hobbies and interests to help pique your creativity and imagination. They like to enable the passions inside you because they know that it will make you a much happier and more spirited person.
Life partners are there to stick it out with you for the long haul. They know of your long-term goals and are committed to staying by your side no matter how you fare with life. These people will serve as your foundation of strength and motivation to find success in life. They are those who will push you up whenever you need it.
2. Egotistic Passions vs Unconditional Compassion
A soulmate will be able to relate with you on a lot of levels. They operate with you on the same wavelengths a lot of the time but once differences start to arise, they are uncompromising. Your differences can be irreconcilable because your passions are driven egotistically and you are only united by the interests and passions that you share.
A life partner will not necessarily be in agreement with you all the time but he/she will know how to listen to you and understand you. A life partner is willing to make compromises in order to promote harmony and peace in your relationship. Your life partner is absolutely committed to making things work with you because you make up the glue that holds both your worlds together. – Continue reading on the next page
3. Natural Attraction vs Practiced Affection
Your attraction to your soulmate will feel absolutely natural and organic. You don’t have to force anything because you’re practically the same person inhabiting two bodies. This is great for you when things are just starting out because you feel an automatic connection to someone other than yourself. The problem with you being exactly the same person is that neither of you will be able to fill the voids in each other’s lives. You both share the same flaws and shortcomings that neither of you can compensate the other for.
A life partner won’t necessarily get along with you at the start. Instant romance is virtually out of the question. However, with constant practice and hard work, a life partner can make any relationship meaningful. A life partner invests himself/herself fully into a relationship and the efforts will show. This form of love, intimacy, and affection lasts longer because of the amount of work that is put in as a foundation.
4. Memories of a Moment vs Experience of a Lifetime
A soulmate will be there at your side during some of the most important moments of your life. It can involve you going to great concerts together, going on memorable vacations, having incredible dates, and the like. These moments are rare and amazing, but they never succeed to be anything more than what they are moments. Your soulmate will be there throughout various notable periods in your life, but periods don’t necessarily make up the entire sentence.
A life partner is there through thick in thin. A life partner will be at your side during the grandest and dullest moments of your life. You won’t find every single second with your life partner as life-changing, but you treat your entire relationship as an experience of a lifetime. You value each other’s company because you know that for as long as you have the other, you don’t have to face the world alone.
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