Do you believe in signs?

[sherbanator]

I do not believe in signs but I have had two odd things happen recently. One was that my wedding picture with stbx fell off the wall and the glass in it shattered. That was at my mom's house. Seems like no big deal and I didn't think anything of it a couple of days ago but something weird happened yesterday.

I always wear this necklace that has a heart in it that stbx gave me. I don't even think about it because it always stays on, I never take it off. I went to a water park yesterday and my friend noticed my necklace had broken. It was actually draped around my next so I assumed the thrashing around on the water slide broke it and was just thinking how fitting it was that it broke after all these years of wearing it non stop. Well I took it off and was going to throw the broken chain away but I realized it wasn't broken at all. The chain is perfect, even the clasp is perfect. It just came undone and the heart is gone.

This probably doesn't seem like a lot but it is so weird because of the way it was draped around my neck and how there is no way for this kind of clasp to just come undone. I'm taking out as my own personal signal that it is time to stop letting stbx in and out of my life(and bed) and I need to face the reality of the situation and move on. @

So, how about you? Anything happen that may have been coincidence that it was time to change something in your life? Or do you believe in signs?

[starburst604]

I feel like signs have always followed me. After trying to get pregnant for a while I had my first fertility treatment and had a few weird signs leading up to the positive test, notably this about a week before.

[cuddlyevil]

I believe in signs. But I don't recall anything surrounding my splitting with stbx that I'd consider a sign.

[sherbanator]

Dec 5, 2014 15:58:48 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

I feel like signs have always followed me. After trying to get pregnant for a while I had my first fertility treatment and had a few weird signs leading up to the positive test, notably this about a week before.

That gave me chills, amazing!

[Deleted]

When I went to move out I opened up the bag containing my wedding dress and it was covered in mold. I thought that was a sign! and at the very least kind of funny

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Not really around my divorce but like starburst I did have one about pregnancy. We had also undergone fertility treatments and while I was in the dreaded window waiting to test, I remember there being a lot of "pregnancy related" things happening. We went to the Bodies exhibit here in town and there's a huge display of what an embryo/fetus goes through in development and then there was an iMax movie also completely about babies and I remember turning to my mom and saying "if I'm not pregnant the universe is being an asshole right now." I got my positive the next week.

[stephreloaded]

I think that when you are living a particular situation, you are more aware of things related to it. Did I kill the thread? I hope not lol.

[starburst604]

Dec 5, 2014 16:01:48 GMT -5 sherbanator said:

Dec 5, 2014 15:58:48 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

I feel like signs have always followed me. After trying to get pregnant for a while I had my first fertility treatment and had a few weird signs leading up to the positive test, notably this about a week before.

That gave me chills, amazing!

Oh and I totally forgot, right before I had the fertility treatment I was walking back into my office from lunch one day and there was randomly a fortune cookie fortune laying on the ground right at the threshold of the door. I walked past it but it nagged at me for some reason so I went back and picked it up. It said "right now you need to be patient". Then I got the other one a week before my BFP while out to eat with friends. So weird!

[berbles]

I agree with stephreloaded that signs are usually just you being more aware of certain things BUT I also firmly believe that there are forces in the universe that we don't fully understand that connect people; kind of string-theoryish.

For example, I'm now convinced that BF and I were supposed to meet. We were 1 degree away from each other for 10+ years before we actually met. He went to my HS prom! He was dating a girl who I was in choir with and went to her prom with her. We also may have hung out at the same pool hall in the early 2000s, and we were each hanging out with guys who knew each other because they have the same last name and went to middle school together.

[jigsy]

I don't believe in signs, but I think that things happen the way they are supposed to happen. I try not to get down on myself about the what-ifs because I have no idea what the next thing will be, but every step I take leads me there.

[riverpestie]

I believe in Karma, and she can be a bitch sometimes...

[peppermint]

I definitely believe in signs and love reading all these stories and hearing people's opinions. I can't recall significant signs in my life, but I know I'm always looking for them.

[Deleted]

Who else has that song in their head now? Signs signs everywhere there's signs

[berbles]

Dec 5, 2014 17:12:35 GMT -5 inara said:

Dec 5, 2014 16:32:52 GMT -5 berbles said:

I agree with stephreloaded that signs are usually just you being more aware of certain things BUT I also firmly believe that there are forces in the universe that we don't fully understand that connect people; kind of string-theoryish.

For example, I'm now convinced that BF and I were supposed to meet. We were 1 degree away from each other for 10+ years before we actually met. He went to my HS prom! He was dating a girl who I was in choir with and went to her prom with her. We also may have hung out at the same pool hall in the early 2000s, and we were each hanging out with guys who knew each other because they have the same last name and went to middle school together.

I'm like this with a coworker. We both grew up in the upper peninsula of Michigan, which doesn't have a huge population. We were both in the same city in Japan in 2004 at the same time. We both raced the same distance at the same event last year. But we didn't meet until he started working at my company, thousands of miles from where we grew up.

BF isn't the only person this has happend with, either. I have another friend who is friends with 3 people I knew separate from him and from each other. It's bizarre.
ETA: and I live in a city of 800,000 people.

[ashley11]

got in a cab this week and the cab driver had a divorce magazine for me.  totally random but I filed today for divorce

[Mrs.Rad888]

Dec 5, 2014 16:32:52 GMT -5 berbles said:

I agree with stephreloaded that signs are usually just you being more aware of certain things BUT I also firmly believe that there are forces in the universe that we don't fully understand that connect people; kind of string-theoryish.

For example, I'm now convinced that BF and I were supposed to meet. We were 1 degree away from each other for 10+ years before we actually met. He went to my HS prom! He was dating a girl who I was in choir with and went to her prom with her. We also may have hung out at the same pool hall in the early 2000s, and we were each hanging out with guys who knew each other because they have the same last name and went to middle school together.

DH and I have a similar story.
We were both in the Navy, he joined 5 years before I did. For the 15 years we were in at the same time, I always seemed to be just a step behind him in regards to transferring duty stations. He was in Chicago, I was right behind him. He was stationed in VA, I was right behind him again. I met him after he retired from the Navy, I was at my final duty station, recently separated from XH, and we had to work together. 
We dated for 1 1/2 years, back in 2002-2003, then he returned back to where he lived and finished his divorce (that was already in progress, it wasn't because of me!). He and his (now)XW kept going back and forth whether or not they actually wanted to divorce, and I got tired of being in a LDR and feeling like a consolation prize, so I broke up with him. 4 1/2 years later, DD and I were at the mall, I turned around, and there he was. We started dating about a month later, and got married later that year.
And, in the it's-a-small-world category, DH knew, and worked with, the guy I lost my virginity to, 20 years before I met him.