Lightening strike?

[PurpleOrchid42]

Has anyone had this experience? Like you saw someone and it was like a lightening strike? It happened to me last year, a guy on the school run. I just feel hopelessly attracted to him and I can't shake it.

I'm just wondering if this ever actually means anything? Like has anyone experienced this and it really did mean he was your soulmate? Or was it just a nothingness in the end? Interested to hear...

Damn it! I misspelled lightning 🤦🏼‍♀️

Bump

Happened on the underground once. I was on the down escalator, he was on the up. Our eyes locked and we both turned round. He have me the most amazing smile. It certainly made my day.

Yes, it happens. It usually means that the 'struck' person has unmet needs, rather than anything about the potential relationship.

People can be together for a long time before realising they're not right for each other. You can't tell from a 'lightning strike'. It's just fantasy.

Oh yes it happens, but I don’t think it means they are meant to be your soul mate. I mean one person is attracted to many people over their life, a soul mate is more than just physical attraction. The father of my eldest son we literally both got a mild shock the moment we kissed, from a lamp post we leaned into in Tenerife. So many weird things led to our meeting, and whilst I don’t think he was my soul mate (he was a dick) my eldest son was definitely meant to be

I remember in my early 20s I met this man and I had never felt such intense attraction, I thought that's the man I'm meant to be with, I could hardly speak to him because I fancied him so much so by mate gave him my number, I couldn't believe my luck he was also single and asked me out for a drink, I was walking on air for the rest of the day. Anyway after a week I couldn't stand him, he had a vile personality and rather nasty, so the lightening wasn't anything more than physical attraction.

Yes, it's happened to quite a lot of us. 'BOOOOM!!!! ... Oh, p'raps not, actually.'

It's also happened that quite a lot of people meet their lifelong partner with no boom, and some of them are happy, some not.

It's quite infantile to think that the boom has anything to do with long term compatibility. It doesn't even have anything to do with short term compatibility for many many people, as they wake up in bed with last night's god, who turns out to be someone they're desperate to get away from before the kettle's even boiled for coffee in the morning!

When I met the love of my life it wasn’t so much a lightening strike as a kind of realisation. It was like I recognised him. I was just like, oh there you are then 😂 what took you so long?