'Nothing happened, but I could tell he had changed': 20+ Real-Life Times Women Were Right to Trust Their Intuition

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Mar 20, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

A woman's intuition should never be ignored. 

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  • When a plant constantly gets attacked by one enemy in a certain way, it evolves a way to protect itself. Whether that's through developing poisonous leaves, or thorny stems, they naturally develop a suit of armor. So it's no surprise after the years of wrongs women have had to endure in this society that we have evolved to have women's intuition. 

    We're not talking “look into my crystal ball” kind of intuition. We're talking about that gut feeling you get when something just feels off. Or that tiny little voice in your head that's telling you to get out even though nothing really bad has happened yet. Don't even get us started on all the red flags us ladies choose to ignore when it comes to dating. 

    Whether you know to follow your woman's intuition immediately or later down the road, you know it is always right. Scarily right! In fact, here are some women below who have shared their harrowing stories of their intuition being right on the money. 

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    What are some of the biggest signs your intuition gave you about a man?
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    Green Mountain85 3 days ago • I'm big on sensing people's energy change. Anytime I've ever thought to myself "that's ridiculous, you're being silly, you're overanalyzing" over a small change in tone of their texts or slight shift in behavior... I was not being ridiculous or silly and in fact ended up being completely correct that something was awry.
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    . . throwaways102013 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago was dating a really sweet guy everything was great then suddenly abt a month into lockdown i was sat on his bed and felt sick to my stomach and sort of disgusted by him for absolutely no reason, something felt so off so i decided to go home. i ended up cutting off all contact and blocking him on everything even though nothing had happened at the time and everyone knew him as a super sweet genuine guy but i had a gut feeling that he's changed an
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    than a year later turns out he physically assaulted at least 3 girls since we stopped talking and was in multiple ongoing court cases and then also got expelled from school right after that and is batshit crazy at the moment so i dodged a bullet lol, haven't heard from him for about 4 years and i'm currently surprised he's not in jail yet
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    • Roleplayer_MidRNova 3 days ago I was on a first date with this guy. He was cute. He was nice. Something just felt off. I asked him what he was looking for in a partner, and he said he didn't really know he just wanted to prove he could move on with his life. I asked "move on from what?" Turns out he'd just gotten out of prison for domestic violence and assault.
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    andidrift 3 days ago . I got the second to last final ick after dating a guy for about 2 months when he started making comments on why fat people choose to be fat (if it matters he's average size and I'm very tiny). We were taking a stroll in the city and we walked by some tourists, and he just goes, "Why do fat people choose to be fat? Like it's not hard to be skinny, just be skinny." I called him out on it and told him to not think that way, there is no right body type, you don't know other's
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    Powerful_Village2508 3 days ago . edited 2 days ago Somehow I knew this guy was a creep. But he asked me out while I was at work and I met him at the restaurant as planned. He kept pressuring me to go back to his place, to luck, obviously, and I was getting irritated. So I got mad and told him "No." I just met him and I wasn't going anywhere but home afterward and that was the end of it. I went home and the end.
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    A few weeks later I got bored and got on the Megan's list website for its and giggles and did a local search, and he popped up! Turns out he had a conviction for r ping an 82(!) year old women, and was out on parole. At a halfway house specifically for ex offenders. No thanks! I knew right then my instincts had served me well. He actually ran into me a month later on the local bus system (that we both used) and
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    had an attitude with me. I told him, "Hey I wasn't interested. Sorry, dude, but you'll be alright." And that was that. It was shortly after that last interaction that I accidentally found out his crimes. My instincts told me all of that at the restaurant that first night. And I'm glad I listened to them. Who knows what would have went down? But in my heart I just knew, this guy is a disrespectful POS, and I don't owe ex to anyone in this world.
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    . lacurandera87 · 2 days ago I was in elementary school. My mom had dated this guy. I had met him once. I always walked home from school, partway with my friends and he was about a block away from school waiting on my route. He had his son in his truck and said my mom had asked him to pick me up. I heard alarm bells in my head and said no thanks.
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    My friends thought I was being kind of rude to him but I insisted on refusing. I went to my friends house that day instead of going home alone and told her mom what had happened and that I didn't think it was right. My mom had never asked him to pick me up. I don't know what would've happened if I got in the truck, if I had been walking alone, or went on home alone. Even though I was a little kid I felt him. bringing his son was a way to lure me or have me trust him. I still think about that and
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    Colorcks 3 days ago Just feeling when he didn't like something someone said but nothing about him changing other than his energy. Like keeps smiling but you know he's issed? that's terrifying
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    Kbts87 2 days ago I had an old boss who I hated from the get-go. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but he just seemed slimy. My gut was totally spot on, as I spent the next several years putting up with his misogyny and unwanted sexual advances. I (and several other women) cited him as my reason for leaving the company and left a detailed report of several incidents. He must have caught wind of my exit interview, because I received an inappropriate package in the mail a few days later wit
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    The company supposedly never had enough significant evidence to get rid of him (a few of us are convinced he was blackmailing the CEO who he used to live. with). But then I heard through the grapevine that he just stopped showing up after over a decade with the company. It turns out he had been arrested for trying to sell high capacity weapons, possessing child and trying to solicit a minor. Those of us who left the company because of him have a group chat and we're following the details of his
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    AvocadoBitter7385 2 days ago Q • In high school we had a new student and everybody was intrigued by him because he was quiet and attractive. I ended up having a class with him and I found him. quite unsettling for no reason it was just a weird feeling and told 3 friends about it. They told me I was tripping because I again had no reason to be suspicious about the guy but honestly he gave me the creeps bad. He ended up exually assaulting one of the friends I warned. about him about half a year la
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    SidonceSaid 3 days ago • Throughout the day I was feeling incredibly sad, because I knew something was coming up that I wasn't going to like. I kept telling myself that things would be fine, but still I had this wrong feeling in my stomach that told me I was denying something clear as day. By the end of the day I was blocked, because he knew I knew he wasn't being honest. I felt (and feel) bad about it, but it's honestly for the better.
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    hexencraft 3 days ago • Being dismissive of my feelings, even if they weren't in relation to a fight or anything. Just regular stuff. Being "too excited" about something like a movie or an event I was going to.
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    blinkrandom 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago This is going to sound really awful of me, and I worry that maybe this was a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it does qualify for the question so...! I felt a constant sense of unreadiness in my last relationship. I won't go into the full details, but I will say that throughout our whole relationship, I had this feeling. It was so conflicting for me tbh because despite this, I also felt myself falling in love with him. How is that possible, how does that m
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    asked me if I'd like to buy a house together. I said I wanted to try renting somewhere first as we'd never even lived together before. What proceeded was treatment from him that I'd never seen before: he stonewalled me for three months, then gaslit me to make me feel like I was being unreasonable, that I was unwilling to commit. No amount of gentle coaxing or stern demands got him to say more than a few words to me. The only thing that worked was when I admitted I was wrong and apologised, and a
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    my family, and I asked him why we couldn't find somewhere in between to make it fair. He then resumed stonewalling me, believing me to be deliberately awkward to sabotage our plans. I finally had enough and we broke up. It really shocked me how I'd never seen this side to him before, after we'd been together for a number of years. Was it a self-fulfilling prophecy? Maybe. But maybe he was also an lol.
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    Southern OuterSpace 3 days ago There's a new guy at work that tried to become as familiar with me as my coworkers are (that I have worked with for nine years) in the span of a week. He seemed to be trying to read my interests and would grab onto one thing I said and fixate on it or try to joke with me about it all day long. Very off-putting!! Turns out he was doing this to another coworker but to a more disturbing extent (private-messaging her nonstop on our communication platform at work). I ha
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    sasauce 2 days ago oh man a lot of - the gut feeling I get after getting intimate with a guy, & they start acting weird, I feel that in my stomach, like I want to throw up. Feeling of pure regret - when they change their texting pattern, then 1. I can feel the excuses lie about certain through the phone. Every. single. one. of. them. It feels gross.
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    - when reassuring or confirming something, and the way they justify themselves, and later on, I just knew that reasurrance/confirmation was BS -the way they react to something, when what everyone else was telling me about him, was in fact, true -texting pattern is an immediate give off. Go from good morning texts, to texting through out the day, to only at night time- nah that. Stop wasting my time lol
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    Electrical-Mammoth44 2 days ago • Never wanted to go through the phone. But one day had an overwhelming urge. Did a 1 minute snoop and saw a bunch of devastating messages to other women. It destroyed me very slowly and painfully. I stand by my choice and believe I was guided to do that, because I literally had no reason to want to do it, other than this uncontrollable urge. I believe I was being guided and protected by higher beings. It would have been worse if I'd snooped and found nothing. At
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    . BoomBoomBettee 2 days ago I went on several dates with a cute guy, very sweet, we had definite chemistry. But I wasn't feeling the things I need to feel in my loins, which I found odd because I had such a physical attraction to him, just not sexual. Turned out he was a convicted felon, did 10 years of prison for manslaughter - he punched a guy at a Nickelback concert when he was 17. The kid ended up dying later. He also had a massive alcohol and pill problem. So something in my body must have
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    . Fantastic_Peach_7713 2 days ago I went on a first date with a guy after talking on a dating app for a few weeks. We just went for a daytime drink, I'd not even got half way through my drink when something in me just made me ask if he'd ever been in prison (I have no idea where it came from, it was such a strong feeling, I had to ask him!) anyway, he said yes, and I asked if he'd mind sharing with me why, he told me he had been in prison for GBH with his ex..... I did not finish my drink. My in
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    ChildUWild 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago There was one guy who was interested in me and I wanted to reciprocate because he seemed like a great guy (police officer in a small town, respectful, friendly, we spoke easily, and later I found out he went out of country to help them post catastrophe). Idk why but I just had a feeling I needed to keep this platonic and limit my interactions. I found out after this (maybe my coworkers noticed his interest?) that he was one of my coworkers' ex husband an
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    Within months, he was widely talked about within the community because he was arrested for assaults and kidnapping on his girlfriend. It was all over the newspapers. He out of her, prevented her from beat the calling for help, almost killed the woman. I think about that regularly.
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    BurgundyWolf18 · 2 days ago I was on a walk with my dad & our dogs a bit ago when we ran into one of his long time friends. This guy has been around since I was young but we don't see him much anymore. He had these sunglasses on where you can't really see his eyes or where he was looking. I was friends with his daughter in high school & kept trying to make conversation about her & how she was doing, but he was so weird. He complimented my outfit, my hair (I looked like gnome that day lol), & jus
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    I became very uncomfortable & all I could feel in my body was the color red. Like my brain was like "we are in danger & need to leave". I kind of removed myself from the convo bc my dog started to act up. He's a Chihuahua, so he's usually loud & in your face at first but he was like circling me & pulling me away & would not let my dad's friend pet him, which he joked about. The convo wrapped up & we were on our way. I told my dad about the weird vibes & he didn't get it. About a week later I had
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    were out, so bc we knew him we opened our main door a crack but left the screen door shut & locked. I remember him asking if our parents were home, even though there were clearly no cars in the driveway. He just told us to tell our parents he said hello & luckily he left. I remember being glad I didn't open the door that day. My dad was when little me told him what happened when they got home. Flash forward to another week later & I shared all this with my therapist who gave me the chills saying
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    I have never had this kind of reaction before & I was in an abusive relationship. Now I just hope to avoid running into him ever again. Don't ever wave off your feelings ladies!
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