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To ask for times your intuition was right?

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LLBandTTC · 30/01/2020 22:52

Started reading the gift of fear today (if you can’t tell with this post 🌝) and would like to hear if anyone has ever had a gut feeling about a dangerous situation that turned out to be right?

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SilverOtter · 01/02/2020 08:07

@Alpacamabags me and my husband are very similar! I remember once I was driving home, really craving these very specific noodles for dinner, from one place in town, that we didn't have regularly and hadn't had for probably months.
Got home and my husband had got guess what for dinner?! So weird...I felt like a Jedi!🤣

NearlyGranny · 01/02/2020 08:19

Christmas Day, with family on the far side of the world, DH suddenly says to call DS, I pick up my phone and as I am about to press call on WhatsApp, the phone lights up with his incoming call, sharing that he has just proposed to long-term GF and been accepted! OK, so it was Christmas, but the number of times my adult kids say, "That was quick!" when I answer and I say, "I was just about to call you!" is unnumbered. It's never the 'wrong' child calling, either.

Eastie77 · 01/02/2020 08:32

@DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy - that is amazingGrin

I hope and trust you subsequently didn't then have any feelings of dread at your own wedding?!

Alpacamabags · 01/02/2020 08:34

@SilverOtter jedi is right!!! Such a talent 😂

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 01/02/2020 08:37

@Eastie77 Grin No, our wedding was lovely!

CakeandCustard28 · 01/02/2020 09:31

I was pregnant with triplets. They got to twin to twin syndrome, had a operation to try and fix it. Had a feeling something was wrong, hostipal made me stay home. Within 2 minutes of getting to said hostipal my waters broke at 18 weeks and had the news one of my sons had died... gave birth to all 3 the following day.
I will always trust my gut instinct now.

Bluewater1 · 01/02/2020 09:40

A friend of a friend visited. I didn't know him well but felt uneasy. He was super friendly and complimentary but I couldn't shake the unease but wanted to be polite. Sad to say I should have listened to my instinct.....

WeaselsKingHenry · 01/02/2020 09:40

A workplace many moons ago. We were opening an office in India and needed a representative on the ground to deal with formalities. In order to accomplish this he needed to be granted a power of attorney. I'd met the bloke and had just felt a bit uncomfortable about him - why, I couldn't explain. But anyway, I advised the directors to think carefully about granting him the PoA, it gave him wide powers, did we trust him, had we done due diligence on him etc etc. I was shot down in no uncertain terms - this man was active in his local church and gave generous donations of both his time and money to the orphanage!

So you can guess what then happened. Arrest conviction and imprisonment for child sex abuse, going back decades.

crispysausagerolls · 01/02/2020 09:59

Positive intuition - I just knew I was pregnant the day I was supposed to be ovulating. Don’t care if it’s not scientifically possible I just KNEW. I looked at DH and said “I know it’s worked and I’m pregnant”, and he looked back and said “same”. Tested like 10 days early and every day since and watched that tiny little nothing line grow and grow. Sometimes you just know!

These pregnancy and baby ones are really getting to me. I’m so sorry for everyone’s losses and it’s incredible how strong a mother’s intuition is.

AuntAugusta · 01/02/2020 10:18

A happy one. Met a friend of a friend at the pub, got on well, cheeky snog etc. Fun but not that out of the ordinary for me back then! The next afternoon, I suddenly felt hysterical, complete emotional wreck. Wrote in my diary that I was either in love or mad and that even though he lived in another country I couldn’t see how my life could keep going without him. Called my best friend and sister to say “I met my husband last night” and they both remember how utterly certain I was. Both said it was completely out of character - they’d never seen me act that way.
I’m marrying the man from the pub this summer, naturally.

Now I’m insufferably useless at relationship advice because I very seriously ask my friends if they’re in love after one date Grin

iStruggleWithThePast · 01/02/2020 10:40

I have always known that id have problems having children. As teenagers me and my sister had made a deal, if she ever needed a kidney she could have mine and if i couldnt have babies she would have one for me

Fastforward to adults and after years of TTC i was diagnosed with PCOS. Ive had 3 children without any help but they all took years to conceive.

ThanosSavedMe · 01/02/2020 11:03

I love all the stories about intuition and do believe that there is something there but what about all the times you get ‘that’ feeling and it doesn’t turn out to be true.

I got really upset one morning about dh having an accident in his bike. I honestly thought something dreadful was going to happen to him and wasn’t ok until I spoke to him. Of course he was absolutely fine and I felt like a total drama queen.

However the day he did have an accident (a few years later) no feelings of dread at all.

UrgentHelp12345 · 01/02/2020 11:45

ThanosSavedMe

Thats reminded me of the time I was 18 and couldnt be arsed going to work. I rang my boss and lied & told him my sister had had a moterbike accident so I was going to see her

The next day my sister did have a moterbike accident and ive always felt guilty. That was the last time i used an alive person in an excuse again!

Alpacamabags · 01/02/2020 13:31

Bumping for more. I love this thread

HollyGoLoudly1 · 01/02/2020 14:06

My aunt stopped my cousin attending a football club when he was in primary school, said she couldn't put her finger on it but she got a bad feeling from the coach and didn't want him around my cousin. It was Thomas Hamilton, who went on to commit the Dunblane massacre Sad

Graphista · 01/02/2020 14:36

“Same with health if you fairly in tune with your body, I knew the moment I had conceived” same with my 2nd and 3rd pregnancies. With 3rd (dd) I even said to then husband “this ones gonna work” weird!

BoomyBooms · 01/02/2020 15:33

I had a gut feeling about what my husband would be like, well before I even met him. I just knew he would have a certain type of hair and a fondness for a particular way of dressing. It wasn't even that I found that hair or clothes particularly attractive! Say I'd imagine my next bf to look like Ryan Gosling (ha!) but then I'd have this feeling of 'no, he will have hair like this and wear that instead'. Couldnt explain it or understand why. As soon as i met my now husband we just clicked, it all made sense, he was exactly what my gut feeling told me and we've had a fantastic relationship for nearly 10 years now.

WelcomeToShootingStars · 01/02/2020 16:38

Everybody will be able to relay an experience of their gut instinct being correct.

They'll be quick to forget or ignore all the times it wasn't. Or all the times it didn't kick in at all.

It's a load of nonsense.

BarbedBloom · 01/02/2020 19:56

I grew up in an abusive household and was always walking on eggshells. I am now very good at reading people and I think it is connected. I have told several friends to avoid becoming serious with certain men and have always been proven right. I told my DH and his wife would break up soon as their body language was awful and they announced their separation a few weeks later. I am especially good at seeing through people putting on acts for one reason or another. I said to my boss we shouldn't hire this one woman as I got really bad vibes from her and she proved to be a truly nightmare employee who caused many. Now my boss listens to me.

On a slightly more woo note, I have always been accurate when guessing the sex of friends babies and knowing when people are about to die. I knew when visiting my grandad it would be my last time seeing him and he died that week. I was halfway out of the house with my coat on when the hospital phoned to say my nan was about to die- I just knew it would be that day when I woke up and had already messaged my boss to say i needed the day off.

BarbedBloom · 01/02/2020 19:57

I told my DH that his best friend and his wife*

Honeybee85 · 01/02/2020 20:00

My auntie was dying of cancer and we didn’t know for how long she’d make it. Could be days, weeks, even a month.

On a monday evening, when I was running out of time, I had the strong feeling that I should visit her, though I had scheduled the visit for 2 days later on wednesday night as I had to attend a work event I couldn’t miss on tuesday night.

I listened to my gut feeling and visited her that monday night. She died tuesday night.

wishihadagoodone · 01/02/2020 20:34

I love these. I wonder if there has been any scientific studies done on what causes the feelings of intuition?

I knew I was pregnant before I tested with DS. I just knew. I wasn't sick or sore or tired. I just knew! I got a two pack of the clear blue tests and tested... and it was negative. I was upset because I was so sure but then again I wasn't due my period for another day or so. So I waited another two days and tested again, just to be sure since I had the spare test anyway. Blooming positive!!!

DS was born and was 3 weeks old. Me and DH we're still only getting to "know" DS (if you know what I mean?) Still getting to know his personality, eating, sleeping habits etc.
DS is our second child so there's no PFB syndrome at all.
But we were out for lunch and I just got a feeling. A sick feeling in my stomach that something wasn't right. I told DH to ring MIL to come to our house and watch our DD because I was taking DS to A&E. I tried to explain to them that I knew something was wrong, he wasn't "himself" which I knew sounded stupid because we hadn't really got the chance to "know" him yet. I was sure I would have to fight my case or look like an over cautious, panicked mother.
By the time they'd stripped him and had a look, he was rushed to resus and up the peads ward. The Dr told me we were lucky we brought him in when we didSad
He had a lumbar puncture done and was diagnosed with parechovirus. Hospitalised for a week.

Absolutepowercorrupts · 01/02/2020 21:01

@BarbedBloom
I also grew up in an abusive household and apparently children like us excel at reading micro expressions. We're so used to watching our parents and trying to work out the least worse way to behave, so as not to bring wrath down on our heads. We're constantly watching.
I'm also quite good at reading people. I can't ever explain how I feel. The closest is to say they're wrong, false, something just doesn't fit.

Instagrrr · 01/02/2020 21:02

People always remark over how good a judge of character I am. I’m not sure if it’s empathy or I’m just in tune with others energy/emotions/body language. I tend to be able to easily pick out a bad egg a long time before most others realise the same. It can be quite exhausting at times because I “feel” everything so loudly and so boldly 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’ve often had dreams where things have come true, namely people getting pregnant and what sex it will be!

Instagrrr · 01/02/2020 21:03

@Absolutepowercorrupts interestingly I grew up in a very neglectful/abusive household. I wonder if it’s the distrust and walking on eggshells that makes us that way?