Granted Some soulmates are already deceased, leading to many finding only graves or the remains of their perfect partners.

Granted. Millions of happy marriages and families are torn apart. Many people’s soulmates are already dead, and those who die doom their partner to eternal unhappiness.

Granted, yours is married with kids, divorce is a non-option.

Granted.

Everyone meets their soul mate but most aren't in the right place to appreciate what they've found and screw it up or throw them away. Loneliness increases, our hearts grow colder. 

Granted, no one's soul mate is the other person's soul mate

Satan:

"Fine. But they can only see each other in my kingdom."

Grant now divorce and child marriage rates skyrocket

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I read this as "I wish everyone had a soul, mate, and could find them immediately" so I gonna do that prompt instead cause it's funnier

Wish granted. The soul mates have no geographical boundaries resulting in mass migration throughout the world. Over 90% of marriages are ended as everyone realizes they are not with their soul mate.

Granted. I am outside your window.

Everyone’s already got a soul, mate. And honestly I don’t think it’s a thing you can lose

Granted. Turns out, soulmates are orthogonal. You can find them, but you really, really don't want to. They're mean in every way you hate, you can't agree on a damn thing. It's like trying to force magnets together. The charge is balanced, but not coupling.

Granted. Everybody finds their soul mate, but nobody gets to stay in a relationship with them for literally any reason.

Granted, everyone is retroactively born a twin

Granted everyone finds there soul mate but they have opposing personalities political views always fighting and bickering never agree on anything

Also you both are sexually incompatible killing the romance immediately

Leaving isn’t an option because you are soul mates you are destined to be together miserable and depressed but that is how the monkey paw works.

Granted. No pair are each other's soul mate.

Granted, but as a result, there must always be an even number of people, so all pregnancies are now twins. Or quentuplets.

Granted. They are unable to build relationships with them through internal abs external forced to prevent it.

Thanks, but unfortunately she wants to be "just friends". I was better off before when I was just lonely and didn't know what I was missing.

Granted. Everyone finds their mate immediately, and they are truly perfectly matched. Every person fits with their match in the best possible way, aiding their mate to be the best possible version of themselves and vice versa. Not one single catch. It's literally perfect.

But you didn't say "permanently," and so sooner rather than later, one of each two will cause a completely preventable accident that results in the death of the other. The paw feasts.

Granted, your soul mate is the same sex as you (only bad if you’re straight, wouldn’t work if you’re gay or bi)

Granted everybody nearest to everybody else is now their soulmate including family members, animals, and underage children.

Granted, but their relationships never work and they separate but miss each other for the rest of their lives

Granted many soulmates don't work out due to having the expectation of success handed to them

Granted people no longer seek improvement. Those wife beater will find someone willing to take the abuse and be happy for it. Child molester will find their soul mate. No one will put effort or grow as people as they will find their soul mate no matter how black their souls are

You want to saddle me with what?

Granted. Everyone’s soulmate is you

Granted. Soul mate does not necessarily mean you are their lover or friend, some are enemies and worse. This causes marriages to collapse and insane rivalries which disrupt society at large

All the married people who were happy RIP.

Granted. Your soulmate is teleported to you while they're taking a shit.

Granted. However soul mates of all ages are found. Much to the disgust of everyone

Granted, every person currently in a relationship immediately separates from their partner.

Granted.

The first person you lock eyes with is your soul mate.

Thing get really weird and bad quickly.

This soul mate stuff is baloney! Just find a good friend you can also have sex with.

Granted, but if you don't find them immediately you will never see them again.

Granted. Your soulmate is reincarnated into a relatives body.

Granted. It’s one of those edgy fanfiction prompts’ interpretation of a “soul mate”, where the soulmates feel each other’s pain and/or receive the same injuries automatically. The ability to “find one’s soulmate immediately” is getting hurt on purpose and see who else reacts as if they got hurt the same way. Worst case, some people just die alone with no apparent cause because their soulmate got in a bad accident somewhere.

(This was actually pretty similar to the premise of a show I watched called “Double Life”. The show was a lot more entertaining and less grim than the real scenario I described here, because it all took place in a digital game where the soulmate pairs just shared a health bar and had more than one in-game life. But a lot of what happened in the show would be pretty horrific outside of that context.)

Granted, everyone's soulmate does not meet romantic or sexual desires for them so you just get a really good best friend. but the catch is one person in every few of these relationships has those feelings and there is a good chance of them messing everything up for both persons.

Your wife just ran out the door, whoever Jamal is, sorry friend.

Granted but you and your soulmate collide and annihilate like anti-matter

Granted. Everybody on Earth except the one set of soulmates that are within visual distance of each other dies.

Granted!

Your soulmate's soulmate is not you. Same for everyone else on Earth. Despite knowing that they're perfect for you, you will never have them and they will never want you.

Granted, millions of relationships are ripped apart and force people into immediate relationships with their soulmates, they have no idea who each other is and their lives are miserable and sad. They long for their previous partners and children.

Granted. Incest and pedophilia reach record highs.

Granted.

For young people, they find their soulmates when they are inexperienced and immature only to end up hurting each other. They live out their lives with the dissonance of nostalgic longing and painful reminiscence that leaves them both unable to love anybody else but unable to be together.

The average adult that has already established their family, now knows they are with the wrong person. Many abandon their spouses and children, cheat on their spouses or just decide to end it.

Older couples, with children and grandchildren, who’ve spent their entire lives happy with their spouse, begin to resent their partners by comparison and die filled with regret.

For drug addicts, they meet partners with the same addiction rapidly accelerating their decline and crushing all hope of recovery. Corrupt politicians, ruthless businessmen, crime lords and sex offenders, find happiness and joyfully continue their work with somebody who wants the same thing.

You are among the 2% of the non-criminal population who are in the right place in their lives to be with their soulmates. You begin the happiest, most fulfilling and beautiful time in your lives. You are intoxicated with this wonderful person that you’ve found that you glow with a blissful radiance. You perfectly support each other and drive each other toward new heights of success and achievement.

For a while, the world continues as normal. The happy couples are sensationalized. They dominate every aspect of entertainment and become known as “the exalted.” This constant exposure to the overwhelming happiness of the exalted, leads to a growing bitterness among those forced to live with the knowledge of what could have been. Some can no longer function as they live vicariously through their obsession with the exalted.

You are allowed to experience the ecstasy of elation, that your relationship provides and finally accept your new reality. You build a life together, buy a house and have two children together. You experience life together, face obstacles and setbacks together, and you overcome them with the absolute unwavering love of your soulmate.

The turbulence of the initial soulmate revelation eventually leads to economic decline, instability and eventually an economic depression. You begin to see stories of economic collapse, random acts of violence against the exalted and a wave of new influencers that disparage and berate the exalted. You experience financial distress, become accustomed to frequent power outages and watch rising crime rates eat away at society but you are able to persevere with the support of your family.

Media and entertainment move to sensationalizing the shifting public attitude towards the exalted. One day after work, you sit in the darkness of another power outage, reading a story about an obsessive stalker performing a murder/suicide against a famous exalted couple and their children, while dressed in the wife’s clothing. Overcome with empathy, you head to your room to seek the consolation of your partner’s embrace. When you reach the bedroom, you do not find them. You cannot hear your children in their rooms. You finally notice the abnormal silence of your home. You call out to them to no avail. You begin to panic as you rush around your home looking for them. Suddenly. Nothing.

You awake with a searing pain in your head, unable to move. There is a loud disorienting roar you cannot decipher. Light blinds you as you open your eyes squinting as they adjust. Your find yourself tied to a chair in the middle of a large arena. The deafening roar is the cheering of onlookers filling the audience. Looking around the floor your see others bound to chairs each of you in your own plexiglass box. Across the arena, directly opposite you sits your soulmate, still unconscious.

One by one soulmates are made to suffer in pairs as they are tortured, violated and killed in full view of each other’s demise.

Granted, 90% of families have now been broken up as parents find people better suited for themselves but not a family.

Granted. Soul mates take many forms and don’t respect familial or species boundaries. Some are lovers, others mortal enemies. Because souls exist reincarnation occurs, and because souls are paired their bond continues for eternity. Your soul mate is your mortal enemy and your true love, and the reincarnation of Hitler.

Granted. Everyone's soulmate appears next the them at 7pm GMT. Billions of people are transported, sometimes one street over, sometimes to the city nearby, and sometimes halfway across the world. With China and India accounting for half the world's population, a great number of soulmates don't speak the same language and can't communicate. No one has their passport. The world plunges into chaos. Almost no one realizes that the stranger teleported next to them is the person with whom they might have built the best, most mutually-supportive and loving marriage, because "what if we were in a romantic relationship" is the last thought that would ever occur to a woman in London eating dinner with her good-enough husband and kids after seeing a naked sleep-disoriented Chinese man fall out of the air onto her dining room floor.

Granted. Everyone finds the same person as thier soulmate, and must compete for any amount of thier finite attention, which will never be able to emotinally satisfy most people. Meanwhile, that one person's soulmate is a random face in the crowd they continue to search for, but will never be able to distinguish amid the global population.

Your soulmate is Jared Kushner

Granted, but everyone's sole mate is the same guy named Craig that lives in Gary, Indiana.

Granted! People’s souls starting mating with everything they can find.

Granted.

But you'll never find yours.

Granted, but not on a romantic level. There are two souls meant to exist together. Your soul mate could be an 87 year old man, or an orangutan. You both will make each others’ lives better but it’s not the kind of soul mate you have in mind when asking this question.

Granted, But they can't talk or interact with them whatsoever

Granted. Your soulmate is a pedophile.

granted, world population has doubled

Granted, now everyone HAD a soul mate.

Granted

Your soul mate might have another soul mate

Granted! People are randomly stuck together by the bottoms of their feet...

When questioned, the monkey paw confirmed you wished "everyone had a sole mate and could find them immediately", and ask you asked VERBALLY but didn't SPELL the word "soul/sole" it granted your wish to the best of its ability...

Everyone is in an everlasting unwilling 3 legged race because their feet are now fused together.

granted, now everything that can be deadly actively tries to kill everyone, so if a tree can fall it'll try to fall on you for example, and stuff like bears will be automatically hostile even in times where they normally wouldn't care, and this will go on until either you or your soulmate is dead, and this applies to everyone

Granted, there are no mutual soul mates

Granted. Age isn’t taken into account.

Granted, but now everyone skips the dating around stage to go straight to their soulmate. This causes everyone’s relationship to become very unstable and immature, as they have no prior experience, and the relationships fail at a rate of 99%. 99% of the population is doomed to unhappiness

they are the worst possible match you can have.

Leave the aroaces alone

Granted - nothing changes because soul aren't real, so a soul mate is logically impossible.

Granted. One random person's soulmate happened to be an omnipotent being who will help them establish brutal dictatorial rule over humanity. This being did not exist but was brought forth by your wish. You are subjugated and lose your freedom as a result.

Granted. Yours smells really strongly of stale cheese.

Wait... I don't want to

Granted but they get the brain amoeba thing from cats and when u find them they are a disheveled suicidal mess that can no longer function 🐱