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Fierce Marriage

The Myth of the Soulmate

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.94.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Is there just ONE person you should marry? What if you think you married the wrong person? In this episode we talked about why the idea of the "soulmate" is a myth, and everyone would be better off if it just went away. You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there! This ministry is entirely listener supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner

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0:00.0

Is it possible that I maybe did not marry my soulmate?

0:06.2

Well, that's a good question.

0:08.2

Put me on the spot here.

0:10.9

Actually, I would say on this end of it, no, it's not possible.

0:14.4

But I think it, yeah, well, this is a, good.

0:19.6

It tricks, yeah.

0:20.8

You did tricks me.

0:22.5

So are soulmates a real thing, biblically speaking, as Christians and as people, even if you're,

0:30.8

even if you don't call yourself a Christian, is there such a thing as a soulmate, that one person that you were meant to be with for your life?

0:41.4

As it turns out, this idea of a soulmate comes from, as you did some research, it comes from pretty far back in terms of historical thinking and philosophies and even some religious ideas.

0:53.8

And so we're going to unpack kind of what we're

0:55.6

calling, maybe it's a giveaway, but the myth of the soulmate. So thanks for joining us. We'll see you on the

1:01.4

other side.

1:07.2

Kind of got me there. Sorry. I was like, I sure hope.

1:12.0

I sure hope.

1:12.5

I don't know because you want to think that I think it was kind of a trick question.

1:19.4

It was a trick question.

1:20.8

Thank you.

1:21.7

So I'm flummoxed right now.

1:25.3

So here's the thing.

1:26.2

I think Selena, because I know you, because I know the type of person you are, I think you could have probably married a number of guys and ended up... Never. Happy with them. They would have been very happy with you, very happy with you. A number of different guys, not all at one time. That's sounded funny. Yeah, not all at one time. And I feel like

1:45.8

you probably would have had, ideally, by God's grace, a healthy marriage. But that's not our

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