June 10, 2022

My dearest,

You tell me about your friend who is still searching for his soulmate after all this years, even when he is currently dating someone. Perhaps it’s “the grass is greener on the other side” syndrome or simply, as you scoffed, a delusion.

For how long can two people remain soulmates after years together, after marriage, after all that jazz has passed? You question the sanity of “soulmates” when spouses begin filtering each other out, catching only every other word or not even that.

You’re right, of course. The very notion of soulmates is a fairy tale, a marketing campaign. I don’t buy it either.

Two souls who are so alike, who match each other in every way… well, how boring.

Isn’t it better to be like the two of us, different in so many ways yet able to compromise on the things that matter? Isn’t it more fun this way, when we annoy each other in a hundred and one ways, and each and every one of those ways cuter than the last?

Forget about soulmates; we’d rather companions for life who are silly and foolish and wiser for all that. And that is exactly who we are. Bless.

Yours, ever and always.