Soul Census

Does anyone believe in reincarnation?

Not going to lie, i've toyed with the thought of my soul, upon the death of my body, coming back to Earth in a different form.

I'm reading a story at the moment that has a brilliant perception of reincarnation. 

A couple, naturally they'd be soulmates, who have found each other hundreds of times on Earth (and in the spirit world) finally find themselves losing one another - because all good things must come to an end, that is literally what one of the spirit guides said. 

The woman is completely distraught by the separation because she finds herself unable to connect with her soulmate. I suppose that would be quite alarming. The thought of spending hundreds of lifetimes with someone only to be forced to separate is quite harsh. 

The man kicks up a stink and finds an explanation as to why they can't connect with each other any longer and he is given a beautiful lesson demonstrated by a deer being eaten by a leopard. 

His soul is developing, and he is being put on some sort of course where he needs to learn something important: if he passes the course then he will be reunited with his soulmate but if he fails then he will experience the heartache all over again. It's a pretty twisted way to force someone to learn something, isn't it?

I'm only up to chapter 2 out of 20 of the story and i'm insanely hooked on the readers perception of how souls work, develop, and move on. I feel as though by the end of this story I will be a firm believer in reincarnation.

Footnote: The opening of chapter three was about what happens to broken souls and that just terrified me; and the end of the chapter where the elders are telling him that he is chained by weakness and that weakness is love - how dare they? I understand that change is necessary to progress in life but to cut out love is too much of a change to ask anyone to do. If I was being made to let go of love, i'd want a better explanation than that.