Noun, alternate definition. A word often applied to the elusive love of a person's life; the one who got away - soulmate is what a love-er calls the love-ee when the love-er is still in enough limerence to overlook the fact that the love-ee is really is an asshole/bitch. Blindly overlooking fatal flaws in a person, romanticism at an exponential level. Also used when clinging to the belief that because two people share some odd/romantic common factor they are forever linked. Used when denying fatal flaws.
"After he put an FM converter on my stock AM car radio, I knew he was my soulmate that night back in '82 we were both doing whippets at the same time. We were listening to the radio at DeWeese Parkway and 'Like A Hurricane' came on. It was so intense and beautiful that we were blown away. Then he had to go home to his wife."
A soulmate is a person you share an intimate connection with. It goes beyond "shared trauma" or similar interests. This person can be a best friend, a family member, a lover... It's someone you can dive with into the deepest, darkest sides of life without feeling horrified, because you know they'll never leave you alone. They'll hold your hand till they very end and changing their mind will never be an option. A soulmate will stay.
Someone who fulfills all your sexual wants and desires. One who completes you sexually but not necessarily in other ways that a typical relationship would.
Two people that are supposedly perfect for each other and meant to be together forever.
But for people who actually have a brain, the idea of "soul mates" is ridiculous. There are certain people who are right for you at certain times in your life. There isn't ONE person who you are always supposed to be with forever.
I thought my now ex boyfriend and I were soul mates. Then I grew a brain and realized that maybe we were meant to be with each other at that time in our lives, but as time changes so do peoples feelings. And neither of us feel the same way about each other anymore.