Well, this has indeed beeen a most interestin' thread and that's kind of why I asked for a defination of "soul-mate"...

Yeah, I've heard so many folk use the term over the years only to find them divorced a couple years later...

Ahhhh, the term "mate" works better fir me becuase it implies ones partner where as soulmate, ahhhhh, some mythical partner, like Bill said that might be out there but the chances of hookin' up are remote...

Now I have somewhat fortunate in my life with partners. My first wife, who taught karate, gave me a great son and then ran off with her sansai...

Teh I got lucky in meeting Judy...Yeah, we said things like we're soulmates and folks would see us together and say things like, "you two are soulmates"... Well we were purdy darned good mates until cancer took her in 1996...

A year later, I was blessed in meeting the P-Vine... Yeah folks said we were soulmates but whether or not we were or weren't we have been very good mates...

Lastly, when I think of a soul-mate, only Jesus Christ comes into my thoughts... He is my soul-mate... Now, I didn't want to say this earlier becuase I thought it might mess with the thread but now the thread is well established... But, yeah, I'm happy with Jesu as my soul mate and equally happy havin' the P-Vine as my mate...

Bobert