Yes, I can comment on it, based on the comments I’ve heard from FOs and FAs I’ve flown with when they share their personal experiences. That is what I said in the first place. The general consensus seems to be that dating today is hard, harder than it used to be in the past.
Your question is dumb. No one can know if the person they chose was their soulmate, because they didn’t go through 3 billion women in the world, sample all, and decide this was the one. People meet those who are around them. Eg, you’ll date inside the LA crowd. The internet changed that, and people can now meet online almost anywhere. But even then they aren’t meeting hundreds and thousands of people.
You’ll never know if this person was your soulmate. It may feel like it, but technically speaking, you’ll never know if there was someone else out there who would have been a more perfect soulmate.
You make fun of our way, that’s fine. Divorces in this country are over 50% so let’s not pretend like your way is more successful. Frankly, I’d rather a family vouch for someone, and family is huge in our culture. it adds a layer to someone else’s name, background.
You were married right? But not anymore? Soulmate or roommate? How’d your fight of wading through the dating pool, going through multiple girls, finally finding one, settling down, but in the end it still broke up / ended, she’s gone, and you’re at square one?
Don’t tell me - it isn’t my business. Just making a point. Dating didn’t do jack for the divorce that was years later.
