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    Searching for a soul mate is futile. The ideal partner is the one you create

    by Ada Calhoun May 20, 2017 3 minutes

    “GIVEN THAT YOU HAVE 500,000,000 POTENTIAL soul mates,” writes Randall Munroe in the science book What If?, “you would find true love only in one lifetime out of 10,000.”

    A cousin of mine gave a toast along these lines at his brother’s wedding. He calculated the odds of finding the one person “meant for you,” given the billions of people on the planet, the number of people you’re likely to meet in the course of your life and the fact that in the scheme of human history,

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