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Soulmate not reciprocated

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GeoBasket · 20/04/2022 16:04

If you tell your DP (LTR) they are your soulmate and they don't reciprocate, what next? Something brought it up and he enjoyed joking about the topic, I didn't want to talk about it because I felt a bit ridiculed and I tried to steer it away but he asked me outright if I thought he was mine. I said yes. That was the end of the conversation. He has had opportunity to say it back but hasn't. If he doesn't believe in it, that's fine but why force the conversation in that case? He would 100% have known what my answer was before he asked. I'm devastated that we clearly don't feel the same way about each other when I thought we did. If he doesn't believe in soulmates why not just say that? But I've been left hanging and licking my wounds. Like saying I love you for the first time and not hearing it back. This isn't about if soulmates exist, my question is where do we go if we don't feel the same about each other? It feels very unequal all of a sudden.

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Faevern · 20/04/2022 18:51

Why do you have to name it soulmate why not just say it’s love and everything feels right. For me it’s not what you describe. My Female best friend is my soulmate, we have a lifetime bond. Not sure my DP is my soulmate and I’ve had over 30 years to decide.

Maybe your DP doesn’t get it, maybe he doesn’t feel it, but it definitely shouldn’t define your relationship.

Sunnytwobridges · 20/04/2022 20:07

so it was in hindsight goading me

I think this says it all. I think he was being a prick and that would make me think twice about the relationship. Someone who loves you doesn't goad you or set you up like this. And if they did, he should've immediately apologized, but he didn't.

DivorcedAndDelighted · 20/04/2022 21:11

The way you've described a "soulmate" implies a particular sort of world view, not just the way you feel about him. Calling him your soulmate the way you have defined it says :

  1. I love you absolutely and wholeheartedly, more than I have loved anyone before, and I cannot imagine loving anyone else more than this,
and:
  1. This is "meant to be", so I believe in a world where there is a higher power of some sort ordering things which are meant to be. It's bigger than just the two of us and how we feel about each other.

Maybe he doesn't have that sort of spiritual belief. He may have been trying to find out what you believed, what your world view was. If he doesn't believe in higher powers then he couldn't really believe in soulmates. But it sounds like he could have handled it more sensitively; to lead to to state that and then leave you hanging must have hurt. I think you should spell that out to him m, that it hurt, and ask him why he was so intent on getting you to say that. Because if he's an arse, let him tell you - it will make your decision easier. If he's not an arse, but is clack-handed with his social skills, then he needs to learn that this is not the way to treat you.

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