3 Subtle Differences Between a Twin Flame and a Life Partner & 10 Signs You May Have Met Your Twin Flame (Patreon)

Let’s check out this article which discusses the differences between a twin flame and a life partner plus 10 signs you may have met your twin flame. Do you think you have met your twin flame or life partner?

Have you ever met someone for the first time and felt instantly drawn to them or like you’ve known this person before? Did you click right off the bat and immediately establish an intense connection?

Have you been seeing the number 11:11 sequence at every turn?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then you may be experiencing a twin flame relationship.

But, what is a twin flame, anyway?

Simply put, your twin flame is your mirror.

It seems that once you’ve reached a certain level of consciousness in life, your soul splits in two, before settling into your physical self.

Basically, this means that two of you are wandering planet Earth. The other you is your twin flame and when you cross paths, you immediately feel as if you’re whole again.

As your mirror, they reflect back to you your weaknesses but also your greatest strengths. Essentially, their presence usually brings on a lot of personal growth and transformation.

The twin flame meaning can only be understood after entering the doors of spiritual awakening. There is a place where relationships and personal (and spiritual) growth collide. It is a place where all of you exists, unmasked and exposed, and it craves connection like a caterpillar seeking out the perfect branch to build a cocoon.

But this caterpillar doesn’t hope to hide from the exposure. It’s designed to shed its skin — and everything inessential with it — to become something new. Something without the trappings of distortion, lies, misconception, ego, and ignorance that can fly more freely and peacefully.

Relationships can offer incredible, radical personal growth as powerful as any spiritual practice. And there’s no better example of this than in a twin flame relationship.

A twin flame relationship is when two people are perfect matches as a result of shared pain or another difficulty. The important part is in the dynamic between the two people, though, and it’s where the difference between a twin flame and a life partner (or soulmate) really exists.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? They are there to strengthen each other and to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

- George Eliot

Here are 3 subtle differences between a twin flame and a life partner.

1. A twin flame relationship isn’t about love – life partners are based on it

A life partner is someone you have true love for. You know you’ve found your life partner when you’ve identified a real, unconditional love for another and they have expressed (and showed) it towards you. It’s all about love.

But a twin flame isn’t about love — it’s about truth. Twin flames can often cause radical personal awakenings for one another because they can see straight through to one another.

They’re a perfect match, most specifically with regards to the internal challenges they face, so meeting one another head-on is like being able to face yourself and work through your internal issues.

According to Dr. Lisa Vallejos:

The real purpose of Twin Flame is not about great sex, emotional highs and an epic love story — it’s to wake you up, shake you up and call you higher. It is a gift presented by the Divine — one you can only grasp fully when you’ve released all the smaller things you’ve been clinging to for so long that no longer serve you.

In this way, while a life partner is about cultivating a deep connection through love, a twin flame is about cultivating a deep connection through shared pain, understanding, and the growth that comes from that. It’s really about cutting away the layers of noise to get to the truth of your life and all things as a whole.

For that reason…

2. Your twin flame is supposed to cause you pain – a life partner isn’t (but probably will)

Relationships are tough. That’s just the way it is.

Even two people who are made for one another, life partners through-and-through, often cause each other quite a bit of pain along the journey of their relationship. It’s inevitable when two people seek to come together in such an intimate fashion that conflict would arise.

However, a twin flame is, to some degree, supposed to cause us pain. Without any pain inflicted, we’re probably not going through any real transformation.

It’s in the very definition of intense personal growth that one must experience great pain to realize a great transformation. The pain experienced in a typical relationship with a life partner can and often does help us grow, but it’s more about learning to work together between one another and live with one another.

Whereas with the twin flame, it’s about unearthing dirt from one another so that it can be cleansed — but it hurts like hell to raise that dirt before the cleansing.

3. A life partner is someone you want to spend your life with, a twin flame is someone you want to get away from

We decide to spend our life with a life partner. But a twin flame is the kind of person that leaves our life, comes back, leaves again, and always ends up coming back to us (or us back to them). That is, until each person has “burned” away their baggage -- whatever specific baggage the connection revolves around.

That’s the one caveat to the “eternal” connection one develops with their twin flame: it may take quite a long time, but it will end if the root cause for the connection is healed. At least, the need for a recurring physical connection will end.

Our twin flame helps us grow, and we them, by unearthing our deepest feelings of pain and inadequacy. Physical proximity works as a catalyst for this growth, dissolving all those false or misconceived internal structures until only the truth remains -- the truth about ourselves and our place in the world.

Until this happens, twin flame-type relationships can often appear bound to one another, their shared pain and general life experience bringing them together until the healing is complete.

It is a bit ironic, isn't it? You'd expect nothing but a lifelong partnership from two people who share such a deep connection. Yet, twin flame love doesn't always happen or it doesn't always last.

Can you marry your twin flame?

In many cases, you probably won’t even date your twin flame. You can become best partners in life, just not in the bedroom. However, if both of you are able to weather the trials of this type of relationship, marriage becomes an option.

Many studies have been conducted over the years and people have found a lot of patterns when it comes to human behavior in relationships. But since this is not really an exact science, there can always be exceptions to the rule, right? In this case, it all comes down to the level of intimacy you can achieve with your twin flame. So, yes. If you match in terms of energy, values, destiny and intimacy, it is possible to marry your twin flame.

10 Signs You May Have Met Your Twin Flame

Just in case things remained somehow foggy and you’re still wondering “who is my twin flame?”, we’ve also gathered a list of signs that will help you determine whether you’ve already had this experience with someone or not. Check them out!

1.) You feel like you’ve met this person before; this might manifest itself as a deja vu. They feel very familiar and you feel deeply connected them.

2.) They make you feel as though you’re “home” and their presence makes you feel safe.

3.) You instantly establish an intense connection and can’t get enough of each other.

4.) You feel at ease to be yourself — your authentic self, without fear of judgement or rejection.

5.) You challenge each other and they bring about significant transformation in your life.

6.) They make you a better person and vice versa.

7.) You may come in and out of each other’s lives but you’re somehow always pulled back to them.

8.) Your relationship can be rocky sometimes but you’re always there for one another.

9.) Your love for each other isn’t necessarily romantic, but it is unconditional.

10.) They expose you to different perspectives and you think differently when you are with them; you feel a sense of awakening.

Source:

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