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36 Times Women’s Intuition Spotted Something Was Wrong And They’re Glad It Did
CuriositiesNOV 21, 2025

36 Times Women’s Intuition Spotted Something Was Wrong And They’re Glad It Did

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Logic and facts guide most of our daily decisions. They keep everything steady and predictable, and without them, a lot of things would fall apart. But every now and then, they’re simply not enough.
There’s something else that can override both—your gut feeling. It can push you toward the right choice, warn you when a situation feels off, and in some cases, even save your life.
In one Reddit thread, women showed just how true that can be by sharing the moments they trusted their intuition and were genuinely thankful they did. Read their fascinating stories below.

#21

I was 16 and one day I became convinced that my father was having an affair with another woman. I could feel it in my stomach, even though I had no proof. So I searched, and I found it.
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11points

#22

Couldn’t get to sleep for 5 hours because a little voice said “he’s lying about his degree”. Confronted him the next day… yes he was lying for 2 years to me about what degree he was studying. God women’s intuition is amazing.
11points

#23

Nighttime view of suburban houses under moonlight, evoking a sense of calm and intuition in the quiet neighborhood.
A friend and I “broke up” and didn’t talk for months because I was over it. One Sunday night at 8pm, she unexpectedly showed up at my house. My mom informed me she was outside and wanted to talk. I finished eating first, which took a minute or two.

She wasn’t at the front door. I couldn’t see her, but probably by car on the road. I’m like “I don’t know about this.”

She’d never given me any reason to think I might in danger. But my lizard brain told me “don’t be a idiot and go out in the dark where no one else can see you.”

I went back in, told DH she wasn’t there anymore and that I was uneasy.

She could have come during the day when she knew I was home. She parked on the street, in the dark where we couldn’t see her. And then she wasn’t on the front porch, after it had been a couple of minutes. Right???

I was *certain* she was going jump me. And that I was overreacting.

A week later I mentioned it…a friend told me she’d been arrested for punching a friend and kicking their dog.
9points

#24

I was chatting with friends at the side of the road in a shopping area. While chatting I put my arm out and managed to catch a 3yr old from running out onto the road. Didn’t even know the kid was running as I had my back to them.
9points

#25

When my fiance and I first started dating, we worked together. One night after our shift, we both went our separate ways (obviously); I got this STRONG urge to just call him and make sure everything was okay. He picked up and said something along the lines of “that’s crazy, I was just cut off really bad by a tractor trailer”. Been in tune with him like that ever since.
8points

#26

My mom has really strong instincts, She always calls me when I am having a complete breakdown and asks me if I am ok cause she felt like something might be up with me.
Like how ?! Everytime! While somehow I can't feel it much if something is up with her.
8points

#27

Woman sitting on bed looking thoughtful while a man sits in the background, illustrating women intuition and reflection.
All of my exes have cheated on me and I’ve always had nightmares about the cheating right before finding out.
7points

#28

Woman sitting alone in a dimly lit room, reflecting deeply, illustrating moments when intuition was spot on.
I kept waking up in the middle of the night hyperventilating, crying and saying my ex (bf at the time)’s name. it would happen every night, but i didn’t know until months later that it started the night he cheated on me.
6points

#29

Years ago I had a dream about my father being in emerg. In the dream, there were spots of blood on the blanket and floor and the doctors were having trouble diagnosing him. I called my father and told him what I had dreamt, and asked him to be very careful. He laughed at me, but allowed that he would.

A couple of weeks later I was in their city visiting and was woken by a phone call from my mother telling me my dad was in emerg. I drove to the hospital and when I walked into his cubicle, there was blood on the blanket and floor and the doctors were having trouble diagnosing him! My dad apologized for laughing and said he would pay better attention to me in the future. 

His doctor, who had been a MASH surgeon, did exploratory surgery on him and discovered his gallbladder was full of stones and promptly removed it. The reason I mention he had been a MASH surgeon was that he opened my dad’s chest from stem to stern and checked absolutely everything! The scar was amazing.

When I was around 19, I went to visit relatives in another city. I visited my beloved grandmother who I had always been very close to. As we were saying good bye after the visit neither of us said that we would see each other again, which was a ritual we always followed. This time we both knew this was our last visit. 

A week later, she called and left a message on my uncle’s phone telling him to get ready to visit the cemetery. By the time they reached her home, she had passed away. 

There was an older actor in a television show that for some reason, I felt very close to. I was watching a scene he was in and felt that he needed to get to the emerg immediately. As it turned out, he had been on holidays and had a heart attack and died.
5points

#30

I was 23 at that time. I was working in door to door sales job. I was paired with different people each day.

One day I was paired with this young guy, we started to become friends. Everyday we had morning pitch practice, I got paired with him. I sensed something had change, his eyes had changed, the way he looked at me changed. Like there was this "flirty playful energy". I felt uncomfortable and couldn't say my lines properly. I told my ex best friend, that "this guy has a crush on me". She said "come on, not everyone likes you that way".

I thought she was right, maybe i was overthinking...so I left it. However he did continue to display weird behavior like being extremely sad (in a flirty way) or making a big deal of not being paired with me.

He later on added my little sister on social media, when he found out we were sisters he asked her to tell me "does she miss me".

So i was right 🙃.
5points

#31

I was at a kickback with a bunch of good friends and was having a perfectly normal time until suddenly i felt a severe wave of anxiety wash over me for zero reason. i sat there quietly until i couldn’t anymore and went home and cried on the couch, still unable to figure out what even triggered it. two days later, everyone was sent home bc covid-19 broke out.
5points

#32

My entire body began vibrating and for some reason felt the need to look this girl up on twitter, she was subtweeting me about my bf at the time cheating with her lmao it was insane.
4points

#33

Had a weird dream that my ex was hiding in my house and then I found out he had become drinking buddies with my cousin and he never told my cousin he knew me.
3points

#34

This isn’t really a women’s initiation but as a woman myself, I have really good heater intuition. Every time something goes wrong with my heater, in the coming days, I wake up in the middle of the night with a strong sense there is something wrong with the heat. Every time I have been correct and it’s happened at least 10 times in the past couple of years. I have really bad luck with heaters.
3points

#35

This was an ex boyfriend years ago. We were in our mid twenties and lived together, and he picked up some extra work as a bouncer at a local club. Anyway, one night he offered to pick me and a friend up after my shift at the mall and drove us downtown so we could go out while he was bouncing and he’d DD us at the end of the night.

Everything was normal until he, a *notoriously* cheap man, handed us a $20 bill to spend and “have fun”. We were both immediately suspicious because this man would NEVER just part with cash out of the kindness of his heart. He was sooooo cheap. Always. So we used that money to get drunk and spent the night talking about how weird it was that he was being so generous all of a sudden.

Once we were home and alone, I drunkenly confronted him about it. There HAD to be some motivation or guilt behind him just handing out his hard earned cash like that. That’s the beginning of how I eventually found out that he had started escorting through the club and was running a whole Craigslist operation out of hotels and our home when I was at work/school/away.
2points

#36

5 years ago, I went out to the garage to switch the laundry from the washer to the dryer. Thought "I really should start washing that next load." Nope, I'll do it tomorrow. Tried to step over it, tripped and broke my elbow. I am *still* in an orthopedic rehab facility trying to recover.
2points
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