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A mother's response to her single daughter's concern over "where her soulmate is" has been cheered by viewers online.
Hailee Bournique had gone to her mother with the question that has plagued the minds of many, and was met with more comfort and reassurance than she expected. Bournique had shared a summary of their conversation to TikTok, where she is known as @haileebournique, a week ago.
"I asked my mom where my soulmate was," Bournique said in the post. "She said he is doing exactly what ur [you are] doing, losing his mind and asking where his soulmate is." She added: "War is over."
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Viewers were able to see Bournique sat in the passenger seat of a car as her mother drove. An overlaid text on the video detailed her mother's sage advice, while a trending snippet of Lana Del Rey's "Ride" could be heard in the background.
Internet Users' Reaction
The post, which had been captioned, "I love this woman so much," has been viewed almost 400,000 times since it was shared to the platform on May 15. Plenty of those viewers have voiced agreement with Bournique that mother does in fact know best.
"This lives with me now," one user, @riley,smiley, wrote.
Another, known on the platform as Jodie Macleod, commented: "This made me feel so much better, tell her thanks."
A third user, @zoeroopnarine, shared: "Your mom is an absolute queen."
"What a woman, love her," TikTok user, Sophia Boumallah, commented.
"This is gonna be my new thought now," a different viewer, @.antaaa, posted.
Another, @observerdied, added: "I needed this."
Newsweek had reached out to @haileebournique for more information via TikTok and Instagram. While little could be deciphered about Bournique's current relationship status, and her viral post was a more lighthearted take on the topic, recent studies have found that an increasing number of Americans are single.
A 2023 survey from the American Enterprise Institute's Survey Center on American Life, which looked at more than 5,000 adults, showed that more people are single now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Pew Research Center study had found that 63 percent of "daters" reported that the pandemic had made the dating experience more difficult. This follows a steep decline in U.S. marriage rates, which now sees only 25 percent of those aged between 18 and 34 married. In 1978, 59 percent of younger adults were married.
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