Soul Mate vs Twin Flame

Soulmates share a common mission and comparable stage of spiritual development. They come together because they are working on the same type of karma and the same chakra simultaneously. So soulmates have an attraction that is based on the sacred labor and on the path of self-mastery on your personal spiritual path.
In a soul mate, relationship there is always a connection between you from prior lives. Keep in mind that you can have as many as 3000 soulmates in one life time. You have not been happily married to each of them but in some cases you have killed each other or you may have been each others parents, siblings or battling next-door neighbors.
When a couple is experiencing a horrible sex life, it is often because they were siblings in a past life and therefore the intimate relationship in their current life feels wrong. Another common pattern is marrying someone who was our parent in a past life, which provides an opportunity to work out whatever unresolved lessons you might have from the past. In many cases issues are reversed from lifetime to lifetime so that we might learn how the other person felt.
Whenever you consider breaking up with a soulmate, it seems A GIANT MAGNET appears in the sky making you both run into each other in the strangest of places. Soulmates can feel you come in the door when you come home or know when you're in a crowded place. A soulmate can project his/her thoughts onto you so it becomes unclear if you are thinking of them or they are projecting their thoughts on you so that you can’t tell if they are thinking of you, or you are missing them. It takes a lot to break free from a soulmate, oftentimes you'll break up 6 to 20 times.
A word of warning if you choose to marry one of your soulmates: Do NOT COMPLAIN constantly to your friends and family about your relationship. They won't understand that you've chosen each other as a "contract of lessons" and you'll only make the other people in your life despise your spouse.

Twin flames are ourselves in another body. When we have reached the stage where we are capable of giving unconditional love, we then have the opportunity to reconnect with our “other half” or twin flame. The chances are that we meet our twin flame briefly in many lifetimes, but one or both of us are not ready for the intensity of this connection. When both halves of the whole are ready to come back together and meet they will discover that in their lifetime they have lead almost parallel lives. The events of their lives will mirror each other almost exactly. They may have come from very similar families and family dynamics. They may have had similar schooling or lack thereof. They may have crossed paths socially or lived close by to each other and never known it. They may have almost identical careers. They may even have previous marriages and divorces within weeks of each other. When twin flames get to know each other, they will feel as if the other is reading their life script. That isn't to say they are identical people, but they are perfectly complimentary to each other.
When twin flames meet for the first time in a physical life, they recognize themselves in the other person. This will come as a deep surprise to both, but the recognition is immediate. At the same time you will feel that you have always known this person who is sitting in front of you. It is a feeling of home-coming, because you recognize your other self and feel very much that you have come home when you are with your spiritual twin flame counterpart. Be aware that soulmates also have a strong recognition pattern, only there will be that little voice in your head that knows the difference.
When twin flames come together they become one, they are not like each other but they are the mirror image of the other. They think alike, they hold the same values and often their life experiences are very similar. Twin flames do not teach each other, they learn together and help each other learn the lessons that have been set before them in this lifetime. When twin flames come together they join forces and are capable of overcoming obstacles the average mortal could not begin to face. They are so filled with unconditional love they literally glow with it and have much to share with others.