{"tag":"luck","articles":{"blog\/society\/do-you-believe-in-soulmates":{"key":"blog\/society\/do-you-believe-in-soulmates","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2018-10-13T13:08:03+02:00","publishedAt":"2018-10-13T13:07:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"society","slug":"do-you-believe-in-soulmates"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"do-you-believe-in-soulmates","title":"Do you believe in soulmates?","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EWell, why not both?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, it doesn\u2019t sound like a question with two possible answers that are not mutually exclusive, but let me rephrase it first.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EWell, why not both?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, it doesn\u2019t sound like a question with two possible answers that are not mutually exclusive, but let me rephrase it first.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question basically means: do you believe that happiness in life stems from finding the one right person for you, or maybe from the effort in building your relationship? I think it\u2019s both.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd both are quite self-evident.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, you need to find the \u003Cem\u003Eright\u003C\/em\u003E person, if you want to be happy with them for the rest of your lives. No matter how much I\u2019d work on that relationship, I wouldn\u2019t be able to be happy with a person, with whom I don\u2019t share basic value system, with someone very religious, with a woman, with someone who requires monogamy... Apart from some obvious deal-breakers, there can always be just differences in character that would simply make you unable to understand each other as well as you otherwise might.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, after you have found a perfect person for yourself, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s just gonna be roses and rainbows forever and ever. Even if you\u2019re a perfect match (as I, my husband, and OkCupid, think we are), you will inevitably have some worse days, some misunderstandings... You can\u2019t escape working on your relationship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo is there such a thing as \u201csoulmates\u201d? Kinda. It\u2019s way better than that: everyone, mathematically, has to have more than one perfect match in the world (it would be scary as hell if we only had \u003Cem\u003Eone\u003C\/em\u003E among the 7 billion people on the entire planet!). But it\u2019s also way worse than that: finding your soulmate is not enough to be happy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, good luck! \ud83d\ude09\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["happiness","luck","perfect","relationship","soulmate","work"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EWell, why not both?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, it doesn\u2019t sound like a question with two possible answers that are not mutually exclusive, but let me rephrase it first.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EWell, why not both?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, it doesn\u2019t sound like a question with two possible answers that are not mutually exclusive, but let me rephrase it first.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question basically means: do you believe that happiness in life stems from finding the one right person for you, or maybe from the effort in building your relationship? I think it\u2019s both.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd both are quite self-evident.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, you need to find the \u003Cem\u003Eright\u003C\/em\u003E person, if you want to be happy with them for the rest of your lives. No matter how much I\u2019d work on that relationship, I wouldn\u2019t be able to be happy with a person, with whom I don\u2019t share basic value system, with someone very religious, with a woman, with someone who requires monogamy... Apart from some obvious deal-breakers, there can always be just differences in character that would simply make you unable to understand each other as well as you otherwise might.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, after you have found a perfect person for yourself, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s just gonna be roses and rainbows forever and ever. Even if you\u2019re a perfect match (as I, my husband, and OkCupid, think we are), you will inevitably have some worse days, some misunderstandings... You can\u2019t escape working on your relationship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo is there such a thing as \u201csoulmates\u201d? Kinda. It\u2019s way better than that: everyone, mathematically, has to have more than one perfect match in the world (it would be scary as hell if we only had \u003Cem\u003Eone\u003C\/em\u003E among the 7 billion people on the entire planet!). But it\u2019s also way worse than that: finding your soulmate is not enough to be happy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, good luck! \ud83d\ude09\u003C\/p\u003E","words":291,"readTime":2,"lang":"en"}}}}}