plato spoke of tornaparts.have you met yours .have you married them

[almostanangel]

a tornapart is "your other half " literally,
the gods were angered i cant rember why please add if you can,,,,,,,we were one being male/female and so the gods tore us apart and cast us to other parts of the world some where is your torn apart have you met that person?

nice shoes they were

its really sad isnt it? loads have met but bloody timing!

Mine is married to someone else now too

mines with someone else too. We both said another place another time.......sigh....why is timing always crap???

sorry my interlectual side was showing today

sob sob

I emailed mine today ...................bad idea

I don't really believe in soul mates/ tornaparts/ fate etc. But I am madly in love with my dp of 8 months and know it's going to be a for keeps thing but have done the 'soul mate' thing before and he ended not being or if was God help me!!! So i just like it the way it is - perfect but nothing too dramatic and ott about it! I'm too old for all that now

dont worry living life with the other half of yourself is all its cracked up to be ......unless your an angel of course....(or almost one)!

I would loathe to live with a male version of me ... we would take forever to get ready to go out, have NO money, and live in a tip!

what a lovley way of explaining it. i dont think either of us would ever find someone else to put up with us the way we put up with the crap we give each other - and we both recognise this.

i dont think i would ever meet anyone else who would take me to the toilet and help me when i was very ill, last year. i dont think i would ever get someone walking for miles to find somewhere which sold a hotwater bottle becuase i just couldn't get warm.

love is..... helping you pee awwwwwwww

AAA... I don't know about the platonic thing but there is something similar in Jewish legends about the Creation. (I'm not Jewish, btw, so am prepared to be corrected by someone, but have been reading up on this for something I'm working on...)

In Genesis 1 and 2 there are two different accounts of the creation of the world and specifically of men and women. Traditionally these have been interpreted as two accounts of what is fundamentally the same 'event'. However, some legends take into account the fact that in Genesis 1, we are told that God created human beings 'man and woman he created them' (i.e. it seems as if he created the two simultaneously) whereas in Genesis 2 we are told how God created Adam first and then created Eve out of Adam's rib. Eve is only named in Genesis 2. The legend goes therefore that the woman alluded to in Genesis 1 is not Eve, but Adam's first wife Lilith. Not only that, but in some versions of the legend the first 'being' created by God from the dust of the earth is seen as having contained both male and female characteristics within a single form, until God separated them. Anxious to be reunited with his ?other half?, Adam tries to persuade Lilith to lie down on the ground, but she resists, and when Adam tries to force her to comply, she fights back with equal strength, until God takes the side of Adam, at which point Lilith rebels against God and against Adam and becomes a devil intent on wreaking harm in the world.

Not very relevant to finding one's 'other half' but interesting.

I have definitely not met my 'tornapart'. I love my dh and our relationship is OK, but he's definitely 'other', if that makes sense.

Right... this is long and probably boring, so will shut up now.

married to mine, definatly!!

Yes I believe I have married mine.

if you like Rocky Horror picture show then seek out a fim called Hedwig and the Angry Inch.....it is a rock musical based on this plato theory.............might not be to everyones taste but i love it.

there is a song in it called Origin of Love which explains this theory quite well.

Married to mine, possibly helped by the fact we are related?!

my cousin

yes. and i have his son. who doesnt see him. wish i didnt meet him because although others have treated me better then jsut cant match.

and he married someone else. and is extremly unhappy.

Don't believe in it. It doesn't make sense to think there is only 'the one' - we live on a planet of how many billions of people? What is the chance of even one of us meeting '"the one" if he/she existed? Far, far less than winning the lottery.

I suspect that what people think of as being soulmates is often just a weird feeling of familiarity, but IMO familiarity isn't always good. If you have a very critical/unreliable father for example, when you meet a man like this it can feel familiar but it doesn't mean it is good for you.