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Comments on "Soulmate or Egomate?"

Soulmate or Egomate?

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false dichotomy?

Clever distinction ... but it seems a little too black-and-white to me. In a lot of cases, one partner may feel he/she has a "soulmate" while the other partner feels like he/she has an "egomate." What happens when the two are out of sync, and what explains being out of sync?

soul mate

Soul mate could be a key word in the soap play Drop Dead Diva. And till now---- as I am not sure what will happen next, the writer has a curl thought and always gives us surprise---- Deb, or we should call her Jane now, is determined to be Grayson’s soul mate. To be honest, this matching surprised me at first. How could it be? A simple mind blonde model could be the soul mate of a smart lawyer? I thought the soul mates should be the two people who could understand each other, who could know each other well and it is about the intelligence.
But Deb is absolutely different from Grayson. She is sweet and nice, but she has empty brain, doesn’t she? I think, all she cares are the clothes, cosmetics and the social activities. A silver high quality rubber wristband could get more attention than the news about the financial crisis or the environmental problems from her. But Grayson is the guy who knows a lot except the fashion field things. Maybe they two just have complementary advantages. And that is the soul mate means.
But later I knew one thing. When we are looking for our soul mates, we are looking for the one who could know our inner part better. And all these have nothing to do with the intelligence or the certificate or the family background. We are born to be together, I think it is about the destiny. When you meet him or her, you would know that your destiny is calling you. No matter how long you know each other, you feel safe to tell him or her everything about you and you know you could trust him or her. They are your shelters. And that is love, which begins with no reason and could not be copied by any mean.

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