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You only see black and white until you touch your soulmate for the first time. It was thought a myth that you could have multiple soul mates; though with the age of the internet, that myth was being disproved more and more each day. Reddit stories detailing how people would get colors with their lover then fade to black when their soulmate changed into a completely different person or they died. BUT the colors could come back with a second partner. Of course, Reddit isn’t a reliable source of information. Academic scholars have also studied this and have found that people who have lost their soulmates were able to find another soulmate later in life and gain vision color back. It is still unknown how the presence of a soulmate affects the eyes of someone else but the research is ongoing. For example, after Marcy’s death, Bobby is able to regain color vision once he and Athena hold hands on their first date.
For some people, there are marks that denote where their soulmate will touch them for the first time. It’s usually arms, hands, and the occasional back handprint from bumping into the other. Bobby was born with two marks on his body, one on each hand for each of his wives. Before meeting Marcy, he presumed his lover held both of his hands at once. He never noticed she didn’t until Athena reached for his hand during their date (coinsidentally, the opposite hand Marcy grabbed all those years ago.) For Buck, it was a handprint on his shoulder (like his favortie bisexual disaster Dean Winchester’s famous handprint.) Eddie has a mark on the front of knuckles due to a fist bumb Buck gave him at the diner post bombing.
They have additional marks on both sides of both of their chests, just little points of contact, as if someone just flicked them in very peculiar, symmetrical spots. That was their running theory for years. Just little touches, almost brushed aside as if they were pimples or bug bites until they didn’t fade.
There is not substantial evidence for people having more than one soulmate at a time. There are rumored cases but they are considered one offs and not common enough to be studied broadly, treated as case studies rather than as phenmonens.