[Thunder]

I saw a phychic many years ago with some friends of mine, just for fun.
Nothing she said, or predicted, ever came true for any of us (7 people)...so no I don't believe in them.

Having said that, my family were Hungarian Gypsy's so I do I believe some people have an uncanny way of sensing things others don't.
Not to predict the future, no one can do that, but maybe more connecting on a deeper level with the person you are talking to.

[Medusa]

I do believe there are some who have a gift but, as other have said, those who truly have it are the ones who don't charge for their services.

I did have one interesting experience shortly after my mom died. I was staying with a friend and we went to her meditation group. The woman who was leading it (she who coined my "That was some firetrucked up sh!te" tag line) came into the room, looked at my friend and me, and asked if someone had just died for one of us. She was getting very clear messages from mom. I honestly never believed that people could receive messages from the dead, but when she said Mom was with some one whose name was something like Cyr, I freaked out a bit as her brother's name is Cyril. Then she said Mom was dancing in high heels, which also freaked me out since Mom had surgery about 6 months before she died to rebuilt her spine, and her goals were to wear heels, again, and dance. There is no way that woman could have known that.

[Velika]

Thanks to thread post I decided to see a psychic. It gave me a lot to think about.

This wasn't a fortune teller or mind reader. She didn't "guess" my problems and asked for background.

One thing that really startled me was that she told me right away that something was physically wrong with MLCer's brain. She told me that "something happened, almost overnight ... It was like his brain was deprived of oxygen." She told me she wanted to say it was something like schizophrenia. She said it was congenital.

I'm not sure if this information helps anyone here, and it goes without saying that she hasn't met or examined him. I wasn't expecting this, though, as every therapist we have met seems to just ignore me when I insist that he changed very radically and quickly.

Anyhow ... I thought I would share!

[MourningDove]

I think there are so many therapists who have not really studied MLC  and experienced the BD.
We may have seen early issues, but the "changing overnight" is something only anyone who has experienced as a LBS can explain.

Interesting that the psychic picked up on this.

The medium I spoke to told me about the cottage and an affair. Also that there was an issue arising regarding our house. At the time H was having realtors come in because he was pushing for me to sell the house. Hard to explain away when I had never met the woman.

[living with Hope]

I did a girl's day way back in the day. 
I was happy.  I had  a great life. I met with this kind lady who told me my life was basically going to fall apart.  My friends all got readings wit wonderful things to look forward to.  Me, not so much.  She forsaw my H leaving me.  She saw huge financial trouble.  She told me that my husband would go on a tear for women, drugs, alcohol.  She saw lots of things.  Everything she told me came true. 

I just sat there stunned.  I couldn't even stay to enjoy the lunch us girls had arranged.  I went home.  I talked to my H about all the things he said. She thought she was  a crackpot.  He assured me non stop that it was all nonsense.  I shook it off and we lift the next 4 years every so often giggling about it.   Well everything she said came true.   She talked of my husband having  a dark side emerge that would want him to run, to live a "Penthouse" lifestyle that is not normal. 

I have seen a psychic with my friends quite a bit since my spouse left. (I have friends that are psychic junkies so I go when it is a girls day. It can be quite the giggle afterwards comparing readings).  My readings are always dominated by him and never show hope really.  It doesn't matter who is doing the reading.  They talk of him  being mentally ill, him having a very dark side.  How he got to this point - childhood wounds, fear, pain...  They have foretold the drugs, they even have described the lastest OW and that he was looking to her to save him.  That phrase bothered me quite a bit.  That was the first thing he said to the child that confronted him about the latest OW who was hidden. He said " she is saving me".

So I believe.  I also was told by the first one that she sees things but we can alter our course/our direction. We can take what she says, process it and maybe adjust.  It is not definate.  It is just the path we are heading on that particular moment.


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[Reallytrying]

I spoke to someone today who my friends and used and liked.  I did not feel good about it, interestingly.  At first it felt way too general and then it almost felt combative where she actually told me that I was a manipulative person - which most definitely doesn't ring true.

She said that she saw I needed to let go and have more fun, unleash my creative side.  She said that over and over. 

She mentioned my getting ready to buy a car which is most certainly not true since I have only recently purchased a car.  She then asked if I worked for myself because she saw that a financial venture was potentially lucrative.  I do not work for myself and don't have any plans to since I do truly love my job.

She said she saw success and joy and a happy marriage in my future.  She also said if there was competition I should keep at it because I would be victorious.  She then asked me if I was close to my mom and said I should follow her advice in relationships because she knows me best.  She said something after about not seeing H and me reconciling.  She said that there was no love between us and if we reconcile it would be unhappy.  Then she asked me what my mom said about that.  When I told her that my mom feels he wants to come home she said that was wishful thinking (contradicting the earlier statement that I should follow my mom's cousel on this).  She actually said she saw divorce but then a few minutes later said that she saw my desires in love coming true if I stay focused on my goals and didn't give up.  WTF?

She told me I had very bad self esteem and self-confidence.

She also told me she saw a baby around me and that it was a happy thing.  Then she told me that H was trying to get OW pregnant - that was the baby. WTF?  No way that would be a happy thing for me.  Also, H had a vasectomy so he can't be trying to get her pregnant - especially since I know he has not had the procedure reversed.  She then said that OW was very materialistic and had H's head.

Then she ended by saying it was a positive reading where she sees me being showered with love and living a happy life.

Truthfully, I regret doing it because now I'm obsessing over the idea that he could be trying to get her pregnant.  Not helpful!

Also, other than saying H had OW she never said anything else that felt like she was talking about me.  Nothing that felt like "how could she have known that".  In some ways the OW felt like an easy guess to me.  Who knows......

[MourningDove]

RT - that does not sound like someone who really had a "good read" on you. I don't know that I would put too much weight in what her reading was. You had way too many "red flags".

[Velika]

Reallytrying, if you take the baby and your husband out of it, it was a quite positive future-oriented reading. (Success, love, happiness, creative endeavors, financial reward ...) Maybe things will unfold in a way where all of this will end up being a beautiful sign of all the good that is about to unfold in your life.

Don't let it get you too down. 💛

[Ready2Transform]

Also, other than saying H had OW she never said anything else that felt like she was talking about me.  Nothing that felt like "how could she have known that".  In some ways the OW felt like an easy guess to me.  Who knows......

My xH and I attended a spiritualist church when we were first married, and there was a lot of this kind of vibe of "easy guessing" when it came to other members "seeing" things around us. They always used to predict we'd be having children and would focus a lot on that, but that was just a safe guess for most newly married 20-somethings. Neither of us wanted kids and we never conceived, so there you go. I'm sorry it wasn't a more productive experience for you, but it's VERY good that you knew it didn't feel right, and your intuition is the one that counts most.