Comments on: Soulmates Are Bullshit – How to Find a Real Relationship

By: Straight Dope Dad

Straight Dope Dad — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:58:04 +0000

Really? So finding someone that shares your basic values is equally stupid and unworkable?

And why would someone want to stay with someone a long time? That’s easy, because it’s rewarding. I’m sorry that your relationship sucks and you don’t have the guts to take the steps necessary to change your situation, but believe it or not the world is full of happily paired people. And the happiest are the ones that embrace my principles. Go talk to anyone who’s in a happy long term relationship and they will all say the same thing. Focus on what’s important and don’t sweat the small stuff.

And no, I don’t literally wish for a “soulmate”. “Wishing” for something to be true that is obviously impossible is a common expression that means, “yes, it would be nice if it were true, but it isn’t, so figure something else out.”

I think you’re the only person I’ve run across who would take that literally.

By: a

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:45:08 +0000

Yes, ‘soulmates’ is total bullshit. It’s a significant cause behind a lot of frustration, unhappiness, divorce, some minor domestic violence (reckless yelling), and so forth in the WHITE CULTURE. take a cue from other cultures that don’t have that concept. I can’t even talk straight to my wife. But why the hell would i want to. She can’t form a logical argument, and stubbornness prevents her form learning that skill. (Reason is not a male trait at all, its just missing in my woman.) I can’t drop my hopeless and analytical search for ‘the truth.’ What the hell is that. So were both idiots. Big deal.
Nevertheless, your new model for success is equally stupid and unworkable as ‘soulmates.’ Why the hell would anyone want to live with one person for a ‘long-time’. It seems to come down to Fear of loneliness. Which boils down to lack of faith. You have failed to look out the window to see millions of people, and focused on an imaginary post-apocylptic world. Absurd and stupid.
You seriously “wish there was some magical perfect person for everyone on the planet.” What a DOPE dad you are. That’s the emotional beginnings of the retard soulmates thing.

By: Molly Williams

Molly Williams — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:59:55 +0000

I’ve only recently stumbled across your blog and have been slowly making my way through your posts, so I apologize for the random and scattered comments. But I have to say again, I couldn’t agree with you more here. Fairytales, prince charmings and sleeping beauties have long been the false hope behind, and in turn the demise of anything possibly resembling a successful relationship. Bottom line, it’s a choice. Monogamy is a choice. A damn fine one when following the rules you outline here. But it is a choice, nothing more nothing less. Check out the book ‘If The Buddha Dated’ or ‘If the Buddha Married’ if you have a chance. Shit’ll change everything you ever believed about relationships (and by you I clearly mean everyone but you). Dig.
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