Soul mates are souls aspects of your own soul who experience with you.
As you are a multidimensional being, your soul has many experiences, in many realities, at the same time.
Soul mates can have many different types of relationships, which do not always include romantic love.
Souls often come together to work out issues or play reverse roles than that which they are experiencing elsewhere.
Anyone who is in your biological family - or adopted family - or pseudo-family - is a soul mate to you. As it would seem, we are all soul mated. You feel closer to certain souls, because you have attracted them into your life as they are on the same frequency as you or because you want to work out issues with them.
Often souls mates come together to bring in another soul - male and female mate and produce one or more children. The karma ends. The couple separates and should share whatever karma is linked to the child. Sometimes the karma is between mother and child - so the child remains exclusively with the mother. Sometimes the karma is with the father and the mother leaves or deceases. Sometimes it is with both parents or with a sibling who has entered the game before or after you.
Karma is that which both souls desire to experience when they meet.
Soul mates can be close friends, co-workers, a teacher, anyone who influences your life one way or another. They play the game of 3D with you.
Did you know that you often attract people into your life who look as you do in parallel or past lives? For example - you are a man seeking a female partner. You will seek out someone who looks and acts if you were a woman - like a mirror image. Your ideal partner is who you are in that physical body! We are always seeking ways to experience ourselves.
Men often seek the goddess look in woman - the priestess with the slim body, long flowing hair purity of soul - beauty and gentleness of creation that speaks to their soul of union with the female creational force. It is SHE who brings loves, guidance, compassion and reunion of your twin soul aspects.