“Given that you have 500,000,000 potential soul mates,” writes Randall Munroe, in the science book What If?, “you’ll only find true love in one lifetime out of ten thousand.” A cousin of ...

Back in 2011, a Marist poll asked, “Do you believe in the idea of soul mates, that is two people who are destined to be together?” To this question, 74 percent of men and 71 percent of women ...

I'm very depressed, but not about that — it's because I feel like I've spent my whole life looking for a soul mate, unsuccessfully. I'm fearful that at my age, if I haven't found someone by now ...