Soulmates grow together

A wonderful description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernier

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

  This quote really hits home for me and says what a soulmate is. Yes, you can fall in love. Yes, it's often intense and passionate. But if you truly find your soulmate the love you have will continue past the passion and past the intensity. It will endure past the visual beauty that first attracts you.

  That love will be your joy as you grow old together. Your soulmate be your comfort as your life moves on and you encounter change. You will know when change happens if that person you consider to be your soulmate is inextricably entwined and with you through eternity because they will support you no matter what, your roots will have grown together.