Chances are You Have Already Met Your Soulmate

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” -Homer

Colleen Murphy
3 min readAug 22, 2021
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash

Your eyes meet across a crowded room. It is an electric feeling. All the waiting, the dating, the failed romances, the tears, all add up to this one moment. And you just know. You met the one.

As it turns out…probably not.

According to a recently published study, the most likely scenario is you already know your soulmate. Researchers love the subject of love and relationships. There is a wealth of analytical data delving into nearly every aspect of relationships. Except one.

“Very few studies are really looking at this friends-first relationship initiation, despite our observation that it’s the most common form of relationship initiation by far.” -Danu Stinson

In fact, the study found the majority of long-term relationships actually began in long-term friendship.

Research Dispels the Fantasy

In a study published in the Journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers found it was far more likely…

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Colleen Murphy

Writing about the beautiful journey of life and love. We are all figuring this out together