Intuition & Relationships
We’ve all had those gut feelings about something at one time or another, or a strong hunch about something. But how does our intuition affect our relationships? Here are some ways in which we see intuition at work, or influencing our relationships:
· Love at first sight. People often say that they just knew their partner was the one, from the moment they first met. This is our intuition speaking. For whatever reason we can often read something about a person right off the bat. There may be an instant connection or bond that sparks our intuition, letting us know that a certain person is something special.
· Bad feeling about a friend’s partner. We’ve all met someone who just gives us a bad feeling, and often we have this sense about someone our friend is dating. Our friend is often too close to the relationship to see it, but from an outside perspective we can see something different. It might not be something we can put our finger on, but our intuition is at work, giving us a bad feeling about someone being wrong for our friend.
· Weird feeling on a first date. For reasons that we can’t always explain, we ca often tell on a first date that someone isn’t going to work out. Sometimes we get a bad or weird vibe from someone and can just tell that they aren’t going to be compatible with us, even though we barely know them.
· Sense of something when first meeting someone. Sometimes when we meet someone for the first time we have a strange hunch – either that we know we’ll encounter them again in a significant way, or that we’ve met them before. It might just be that they have familiar characteristics or remind us of someone we know, but our intuition signals us that there is something special or unusual about certain people.
· Premonition of betrayal. Sometimes we have a strange feeling where we don’t trust someone, for no specific reason. There may not be any just cause for not trusting them but certain people give us a hunch that they can’t be trusted or they might betray us. Our intuition warns us not to trust these people and hopefully we are able to listen and avoid getting hurt.
· Feeling “off” about someone. We know ourselves better than anyone and we often get the sensation that we are “off” or just don’t feel like ourselves with certain people. We may not get a clear indication of why or what we are worried might happen with them (getting betrayed, hurt, etc.), but we just intrinsically feel like we aren’t ourselves. These feelings should not be ignored, as our intuition is usually trying to tell us something. Sometimes we don’t find out what it was until much later.
· Knowing it’s not right. We often end relationships because we just knew it wasn’t right. We cant put our finger on why or give the other person a concrete reason for breaking up – we just knew deep down that they were wrong for us. This is our intuition at play, letting us know that someone isn’t right for us before we are able to see why for ourselves. Listening to this intuition can save us a lot of time in relationships that aren’t going to work out in the long run.
· Seeing red flags. Though we often ignore warning signs in people that we care about, there are often a number of red flags raised about people that are dangerous or bad for us in some way. Our intuition can give us a hunch about someone to alert us to some of these warning signs and it’s up to us to decide if we want to pay attention to them or not.