There is a wide belief among Westerners that two people are spiritually meant to be together in some cheesy, passionate fable of an already punctured idea of love.

Twin flames, soulmates, etc. are an infantile illusion of an old concept found in Eastern beliefs that has been romanticized and distorted by the reprisal of the New Age movement to entice the young, egocentric Western mind.

We are all created with the impulse to seek one another out and procreate. This natural force that compels us to pair up has made individuals believe they are incomplete. Somewhere along the way, we were led to think that only certain, very specific...