Soulmate

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A soulmate is a person with whom one feels a deep or natural affinity.^[1] This affinity may involve similarity, love romance, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility, and trust.^[2] The idea of soulmates is found in Judaism and Hinduism but was popularized in the 19th-century Theosophy religion and modern New Age philosophy.^[3]