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I am not massively superstitious, but have visited a fortune teller a few times at times of anxiety. I have found this helpful to focus me. It is a drop in place, no appointment made beforehand and have never given my name or any details.
I have always seen the same person, and she has always been surprisingly accurate. Examples include predicting trouble with conception, a parents illness, knowledge of past relationships, knowledge of my career etc. I cannot explain this. Anyway, my partner is struggling with his career so with some persuasion he has visited this fortune teller.
Amongst other things, she informed him that we will have a pregnancy in the next year which will end in either miscarriage or stillbirth. It effected him somewhat and has really upset me. We are planning on extending our family, but this has made us both feel wary and perhaps just accept what we have.
Are we being stupidly sensitive and silly? This prediction I know will make the whole pregnancy scary and full of anxiety. I am actually upset the fortune teller told him this. I feel silly for even contemplating not having another child because a fortune teller said this, but the thought of what she said..... Just feel so sad. Not sure what advice I want, perhaps just someone to tell me to pull myself together!!
I have always seen the same person, and she has always been surprisingly accurate. Examples include predicting trouble with conception, a parents illness, knowledge of past relationships, knowledge of my career etc. I cannot explain this. Anyway, my partner is struggling with his career so with some persuasion he has visited this fortune teller.
Amongst other things, she informed him that we will have a pregnancy in the next year which will end in either miscarriage or stillbirth. It effected him somewhat and has really upset me. We are planning on extending our family, but this has made us both feel wary and perhaps just accept what we have.
Are we being stupidly sensitive and silly? This prediction I know will make the whole pregnancy scary and full of anxiety. I am actually upset the fortune teller told him this. I feel silly for even contemplating not having another child because a fortune teller said this, but the thought of what she said..... Just feel so sad. Not sure what advice I want, perhaps just someone to tell me to pull myself together!!
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Don't give it another thought, and get on with your life.
Let me be the first - don't worry, it's all bollox....
Either way it's not something to worry about and my advice would be for you to stop wasting your money.
My sister went to one back in 1988, I was 15 then, my sister comes home with stories that I had brought an evil spirt into the house (I was well into ouija boards then) any how the fortune tell said that I would die at 19 in a motorbike accident. Well I'm still here at almost 42. So don't worry what some charlton has told you, remember if they were that good they'd have won the lotto by now.
Some people are good at cold reading
Please do not worry please do not take any notice
Stop seeing her, have your child and don't ever see her again, ever, what a rank amateur, outrageous.
It is alsoluteley outrageous.... Do not see this woman ever again. Delete anything you have received from, bin it all and do not give her or what she has had to say a second thought after today or after you have finished reading the rest of this thread OP. I am very angry. >:(
Regardless of what she has told you and what has happened thereafter, the future is never set in stone, we alter the course of our future by the decisions we make and our intentions. Focus all your energy on keeping your mind, body and spirit healthy and make it a priority to eat healthy and take good care of your body and you will be surprised at the result of your efforts!
Life is a journey, it could be that one lesson you need to learn is to be confident in yourself and do not let others influence your decisions. No one should be able to alter the direction you take in life except for you.
If she's any good she'll have a spell to reverse her irresponsible, callous and perverse "predictions".
That's without bothering to mention the obvious things, such as the betting industry would collapse, as would the national lottery and Euromillions, as well as the pension industry, life insurance, mortgages, the stock market and with it international currency trading and the world's stock markets, and most of all the met office's hangar full of super-computers that have a stab at predicting the weather. All would be superfluous if it were in any way possible to ascertain future events based on anything other than pure guesswork, odds and outright charlatanry.
Go back and tell her to sling her 'ook.
Completely agree. What an absolutely terrible thing to tell someone. And of course it has no basis in truth at all, but still, what a disgusting thing to say.
She sounds deranged.
Unfortunately not.
Trading Standards deem these 'services' to be 'for entertainment purposes only', which covers them.
Of course though, given that that is the official line it's amazing any sane person would believe in such horse-shit, let alone pay for the privilege of being fed said horse-shit.
I have always seen the same person, and she has always been surprisingly accurate. Examples include predicting trouble with conception, a parents illness, knowledge of past relationships, knowledge of my career etc. I cannot explain this. Anyway, my partner is struggling with his career so with some persuasion he has visited this fortune teller.
Amongst other things, she informed him that we will have a pregnancy in the next year which will end in either miscarriage or stillbirth. It effected him somewhat and has really upset me. We are planning on extending our family, but this has made us both feel wary and perhaps just accept what we have.
Are we being stupidly sensitive and silly? This prediction I know will make the whole pregnancy scary and full of anxiety. I am actually upset the fortune teller told him this. I feel silly for even contemplating not having another child because a fortune teller said this, but the thought of what she said..... Just feel so sad. Not sure what advice I want, perhaps just someone to tell me to pull myself together!![/QUOTE]
If you're visiting a "fortune teller" then you are massively superstitious. Find another, less destructive way to deal with your anxieties. Laying yourself open to this kind of abuse won't help you, your marriage, or any future children you might have.
he had come recommended by another fortune teller and that other person also said my son will commit suicide in his forties. Both a bunch of criminals in my opinion uand if i could turn the clock back , i don't know i was the stupid one, i'm furious with both of them for telling me nasty things i didn't think fortune tellers were meant to tell you bad things so i was very shocked and upset at the time
like somebody has already said it was a cold reading, because they knew our family they knew my son had had health problems and that it was affecting my marriage so they picked the two things , the two subjects guaranteed to get my attention
i'm pretty sure that fortune teller number 1 debriefed fortune teller number 2 before he even came around my house hence why they both knew so much about me
The problem is that some of their predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies. I would try for a baby anyway if that's what you want to do, but I guess (because I'm gullible) be more careful throughout the pregnancy and then visit the fortune teller with your new baby to give her a piece of your mind.
No you're not, you're being conned. If nothing "dramatic" happens in the next twelve months this could be explained away something along the lines of "Oh, how strange? Did you have any false alarms, late periods then? Are you sure?"
If by pure chance something dramatic does happen they've got you both hooked for life.
My advice is if you see them again punch them in the face hard. If they're genuine they would have known this would happen so must have wanted it
I would also recommend you take a look at "Cold Reading" and how people use it to con others. It may settle your mind to realise this person was indeed just a charlatan in it for the money.
If you are thinking of extending your family have a chat with the nurse/GP at your surgery and talking over your fears.
But divining the future from random rectangles of cardboard is absolutely legit.
OK...good to know.