YES.
A BIG YES. I feel that soul mates can be friends or lovers. They do have a role to play in our life.
4 times until now in "my small life".
The 1st time it happened to me (my actual best friend) told me before leaving :
"I'm sure we'll meet again". His look was very caring. As if it was a member of my family, or even much better !
He was both very sad (to leave) and extremely happy.
And I can say he is not at all the kind of guy of being sure of anything !!!
I knew he was kindly, curious about me in a nice way, and no goal oriented.
The feeling is the following :
somebody who welcomes you and feels attracted by you,
and
wanna protect you almost IMMEDIATELY. Beyond nice or ugly apparences.
You feel you've always known each other. Very strange when you never felt it...
It is a particularly intense feeling. You trust him almost straight away and the person feels exactly the same.
I am very much in touch with them (4 boys).
This has obviously nothing to do with love at 1st sight (focused on physical appearance and -sexual- chemistry) !
As a rational, I tried to understand what was happening at this moment without any answer.


Unless I got the non down-to-earth answer
Call it love if you want. Or sx craziness ! But YES, I do believe in Twin flames and soul mates.