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ORIGINAL: MasterFireMaam

My personal thoughts on intuition: it is a divine voice that speaks. This means that if you listen, you may not always have pleasant experiences, for what teaches us things better than painful crap? Yet, you should listen...because you need those lessons. It is, in my opinion, not the role of intuition to help you run from pain. Running from pain seems to occupy us in the modern world. It simply cannot be done. So, why not go into situations with a little better understanding that your intuition will, sometimes, give you the correct result rather than the "good" one?

Master Fire

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ORIGINAL: Jeptha

My first day of high school, I recall meeting some guy and my first thought was "There's a guy I'll probably have to fight." Instead we're still good friends to this day, 20+ years later.

Similarly, some time ago I had a huge crush on a co-worker. When I finally sobered up, I realized that, although she was smart and talented and cute, still, we really would not have made a very good match.

I could give other examples, but that'll do to get the point across.

I have come up with some red flags that seem to work for me if I am searching on line, but I wouldn't call them intuition.

Does your intuition work?

If not, can it be fixed?

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Does your intuition work?

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici
I think online for Me is based on more initial solid evidence not swayed by any visual miscues.

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ORIGINAL: E2Sweet

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ORIGINAL: Lynnxz

If you don't go with your intuition, what else are you working with?

Bazooka Joe bubble gum inserts and fortune cookies. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: urlittleprincess

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ORIGINAL: Jeptha
My first day of high school, I recall meeting some guy and my first thought was "There's a guy I'll probably have to fight." teen-age testosterone induced thoughts...
Similarly, some time ago I had a huge crush on a co-worker. testosterone induced desire...neither a good example of failed intuition.

Ok ~ first, the testosterone card...maybe! Quite the magic chemical if it can explain things at opposite ends of the spectrum, like aggression and lust. I think my intuition is setting off a little alarm for me right there.
But let's say you are right. Still; what made me select those individuals (instead of any others) as the focus of my aggression or lust?
I thought that's where the "intuition" thing is traditionally supposed to come in, but maybe I've got it wrong.
But - if not there, where?
And, of course, what is it when a woman feels these same attractions or repulsions - do you attribute that to estrogen?

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... if you have a 'feeling' that you are wasting time with an online faker, but choose to ignore the red flags that caught the attention of your intuition because you want so much to beleive they are everything they claim to be, then you have no one to blame but yourself when they disappear as fakers often do...

Well, you busted me there!
Maybe it's a matter of intermittent rewards: there have been just enough times when I have pulled a rabbit out of the hat of fate or circumstance when all looked lost, that I always want that elusive "more conclusive evidence" (which 97% of the time is an exercise in futility) before I rule something out.

Part of this does have to do with a guy's experience online versus a woman's, I think..., guy's experience typically being that you get a few if any responses, woman's being ... whatever women's is. Much different, I gather.