Spirituality

Karmic vs. Soulmate Relationships: 6 Signs to Identify Your Connection

How to tell if you’ve met your forever partner or a mirror meant to trigger your deepest growth

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When we are in love, it can be hard to know if the relationship we are in is karmic or a soulmate one, because they share some similarities that make it kind of tricky.

Both relationships involved past lives. A soulmate is someone we have lived many lives with. A karmic partner is someone we have lived at least one other life with, and we needed to come back together to balance the karma between us.

So how can you tell the difference?

Is your relationship karmic or soulmate?

Let’s start with karmic relationships; look for these signs.

• The relationships feels intense, almost like being on a rollercoaster
• Strong attraction between you
• You are often not on the same page
• The relationship has a lot of highs and lows
• A great deal of uncertainty about the relationship; you question whether you should stay
• Confusion is frequent (often caused by the highs and lows)

Now let’s take a look at soulmate relationships.

• Sense of familiarity, like coming home
• The connection is harmonious overall
• Consistency over intensity
• Shared purpose: you have similar life goals and values
• Calm communication
• Strong partnership mixed with healthy independence

What it means if you are in a karmic relationship

These relationships are very important to our souls' growth. We have lessons to learn together. If we don't learn them, we’ll likely want to come back in a future lifetime.

If you suspect you are in a karmic relationship, things feel passionate a lot of the time, and that can be hard to walk away from. But look at what you are sacrificing. Karmic partnerships are usually unhealthy.

Are you making excuses for your partner's bad behavior? Or isolating yourself from your friends and family to make them happy or just because it’s easier. Are you feeling confused by their hot and cold behavior? Do you feel your trust has been broken more than once?

These are important but tough questions to answer, but it starts with asking them and being honest with yourself. Then look at what this partnership has taught you.

It might be about boundaries, self-love, expression, or forgiveness. Once you learn the lesson(s), you will likely feel it’s time to move on.

What it means if you are in a soulmate relationship

Soulmate relationships are often long-lasting; they can be lifelong even, depending on our circumstances and when we met. They are supportive and uplifting. Not in some idyllic way, but in a way where you know you can trust and rely on your partner.

A soulmate relationship is a joining of two souls that have a strong soul bond. Not only from having shared many past lives, but on the Other Side as well.

There are lessons to learn, and sometimes these can be hard, but if you pay attention to them and work on your side of the lesson, your partner will likely meet you halfway; that’s what your souls agreed to before incarnating.

There will be an element of teamwork, unity, and strong love. It is not a fairytale, happily-ever-after type of thing, but it is a shared, supportive, and loving path.

Relationships are one of the biggest ways in which the soul learns and grows. Our partners, whether they are karmic or soulmates, planned our time together before incarnating and made a soul contract to carry it out.

All soul connections matter. Try not to look at relationships as bad or good, but instead as indicators of your own healing and evolution. Moving on from a relationship that was not right for you is a sign of self-love. And it makes it possible for you to find one that is right for you.

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