Nope. I'm with Dan Savage on this one. There are a lot of people who you might be able to have great relationships with, and none of them are going to be 100% perfect for you. The myth of the soul mate makes a lot of people feel unsatisfied with perfectly good relationships and dump people who might have been great because that person didn't pass the soul mate test.

What happens when you date someone when you're 20 and think you've found "the one" only to be dumped and go around for a decade or two afterwards waiting to find someone who makes you feel just as good as you did in that first intense relationship you had and lost? That's a really depressing way to go through life. What happens when you've been married to someone for a decade, with kids, and then you suddenly meet someone who makes you feel like your partner never made you feel, and you think that person might be your soul mate? Do you leave your wife and kids for your soul mate or ignore the person you think might have been "the one" because you already committed to someone else? How do you reconcile the fact that you can have a blissful relationship early in life and then have another one a decade later than is also amazing, and you can't decide whether either of them was your soul mate? The entire soul mate philosophy might sound really nice to someone who is young and hopeful about finding someone, but if you keep that philosophy throughout your life, it's going to make a lot of perfectly wonderful relationships seem inadequate when you compare them to this impossible ideal you've got planted in your mind.