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Many individuals consider supernatural forces to be illusions based on wishful thinking in today's scientific society. The profound exception to humanity's general tendency toward reason, nevertheless, is still love. People are accustomed to seeing romantic love portrayed on reality television programs like "The Bachelor" as a force cosmically connected to one's fate. It's a concept that is both absurd and eerily familiar to everyone who has ever fallen in love and believed their relationship was inescapably "meant to be." According to our research, people hold these enchanted beliefs about fated love and individual soul mates in very high regard. We raise a fundamental question as psychology researchers who are interested in understanding why people think, feel, and act the way they do: Why does love seem so magical? We are hoping that the answer to this question may help to clarify some of the problems that people in love have long faced. Should yo...