I knew it!

I've lost track of the amount of times I've proclaimed that.

It fills you with such a great feeling.

And that feeling is not arrogance, it's more ecstatic relief.

That gnawing suspicion was persistent for a reason.

It's especially fulfilling when others have been gaslighting you about something.

And you knew deep down that you were right all along.

Redditor queen1107 wanted to hear about the times people got proven right, so they asked:

"What was your 'I knew it' moment?"

Let's hear some interesting truths.

24 HOURS

"My brother asking me for money to buy a car and me telling him he can't drive and he's going to hurt somebody or end up in trouble. He told me he'd buy the car one way or another. It wasn't even 24 hours before he was in jail for driving without a license under the influence of drugs."

- atducker

PLAN B for BAD!!

"Suspected my wife was cheating for months, then I found the plan B pill instructions on our car, I've had a vasectomy for more than 7 years."

- Extension_Offer_8975

"These stories always break my heart. But I think people cheat way more often than we think."

- esoteric_enigma

"Roughly 45% of marriages in America have some sort of infidelity at some point with men cheating more in general surveys but there is an age discrepancy where younger women tend to cheat and older men tend to cheat..."

- crab_caos

FIRST SOAK

"That he was the one after a disastrous first date."

"He picked me up and we went to a local walking park. After returning to his car it wouldn't start. We both had to walk home and just as I said well at least it's not raining the heavens opened, I was soaked through by the time I got home."

"I got back home not expecting to hear from him again but he rang me when he got home and started the conversation with 'I bet you've never been that wet on a first date before' we both laughed it off and have been stuck with each other since."

- Effective-Fix5456

DELAYED RESPONSE

"When I was 8 I looked at my mom and asked her if she was pregnant, she said no, and I asked if she was sure and she doubled down. I then said, 'Well you should probably start going to the gym you’re getting kinda fat.'"

"About a week later she announced in front of the whole family that she was in fact pregnant. She just didn’t wanna tell me before everyone else... lol."

- Miserable_Scratch302

"When I was pregnant with my third, my then five-year-old said 'So when you’re having a baby, you don’t just get fat in your belly.' Thanks, kid. 😑"

- dixiequick

"A similar thing happened to me, but I was older. I don’t remember thinking she looked different, it just popped into my head to ask. Later she came clean and said she was pretty sure at that point but had not tested yet."

- needs-an-adult

IT CLICKED

"I confronted my bf that he was cheating on me. He repeatedly said 'I haven’t been with another woman since I met you.' I know, I said. I continued with the allegation. He kept insisting 'No other woman since I met you.' Over and over until."

"It clicked. He stopped talking. I saw it in his eyes. He knew I knew."

"We were talking about men, not women."

- zephyr_skyy

"This just happened to one of my best friend's sister-in-law...dude she was engaged to seem like a nice guy at my buddy's wedding but then a few months later it turned out he was cheating on his fiancée with a dude who had the same name (Think Sam or Jessie) and he kept denying he had sex with any other women other than his fiancée until it clicked for her."

- itsfish20

STUMBLING

"The day I confirmed my ex had secretly turned into an alcoholic was pretty rough. Long story short, she showed up at my house stumbling and then it clicked… all those times I thought it was alcohol in her breath it was—I had just been gaslit to believe otherwise."

- NotABirdWithWifi2

ASHLEY & BRIAN

"Went out for my wife’s best friend’s birthday in 2022. Met best friend’s friend, Ashley, and her husband, Brian. I generally have a bad judge of character but I marked Brian as a scumbag within minutes of meeting him. I have a terrible poker face, so my wife wasn’t happy that I clearly wasn’t having a good time hanging with Brian."

"Anyway, about 8 months later it’s revealed that Brian took the profits from his business for sports betting purposes and was in the hole over $1 million."

"Brian convinced Ashley to quit her job when they got engaged and now she’s severely behind her prior career prospects and moved back in with her parents at 35 because she and Brian had to sell the house immediately as Brian allegedly owed some people who work outside the confines of the law a nice chunk of change."

- Starbucks__Lovers

15 YEARS

"Suffered from chronic lower back pain for years. Went to the doctor who flippantly told me to fix my posture. Went to a chiro who told me to come in weekly for 'adjustment.'"

"Gave up for a while. Went to another doctor who took an x-ray and told me there wasn't anything wrong with me."

"One day I went to the doctor for a hernia who had me take an MRI. Was told the MRI would be like 20 minutes, ended up being 45."

"The doctor sits me down and says, 'Yeah, that's a hernia all right... but did you know that you have degenerative disc disease? The discs in your lower spine are some of the worst I've ever seen.'"

"Blew my mind that it took like 15 years of chronic lower back pain to get diagnosed for something that went on a doctor's wall of fame."

- Jaded_Permit_7209

GOTCHA!

"When I was in high school I thought my stepmother was cheating on my dad. Me and a friend rode our bikes up to the mall and as soon as we walked in I saw her and some guy sitting across from each other right in front of the food court. My stepmother was so shocked seeing me her eyes got as big as pie plates. As they were walking away he put his arm around her and they were whispering something to each other."

- RoseWould

SECRETS

"I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which made me think I was on the spectrum. I brought it up with my mom who was shocked to hear that I knew. I learned I was diagnosed as a child but my parents didn’t know how to tell me.

- ActafianSeriactas

LOST FAITH IN THE SYSTEM

"I'm a supply chain professional. In the very early days of COVID's impact here in the US, myself and many people like me saw what was happening in China and other places and knew, for certain, that there was a massive supply chain shock and crazy inflation coming."

"It was extremely obvious and predictable, months before it hit full force. I kept waiting and waiting for someone in the government to talk and do something about it, but no one did. Then it happened."

"Then, I heard countless outlets from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg to John Oliver talking about it and pointing out these factors and causes, that I, and hundreds of people like me, were fluently aware of and saw coming clear as day, months ago."

"That was when I really lost faith in the system, and I didn't have that much to begin with."

- Right-Ad8261

NETFLIX & TRUTH

"She told me she broke off all contact with the other guy so that we could focus on us and our relationship. She went to the kitchen to get some wine while watching the Netflix Lemony Snicket and forgot her phone on the couch. It lit up with a message from the other guy, with the text preview saying 'I love you so much baby we'll get through this.' I already knew, but it was nice to get the evidence that I knew.

- _ProJared_

RELIEF

"During the pandemic, I was diagnosed on a video call with Multiple Sclerosis. It's a tricky diagnosis to get in many cases since it's a complex temporally and spacially oriented diagnosis. The day I finally had the badge of Dx that opened the door for aggressive treatments was truly a good day. While other doctors told me 'Nah, it's not MS,' I was integrating risk and accumulating brain and spinal damage. And I knew it."

"Turning that corner brought tears of relief if I'm being honest. Followed quickly by those of dismay, naturally."

- WhuddaWhat

BAD NEWS

"When I woke up and read the news regarding the Brussels airport bombing in 2016, I just knew my father had to have almost gotten caught up in it."

"My father has been awful close to being a victim of several terrorist attacks (was supposed to be at the WTC on 9/11, was in London during the subway bombings, was sitting 2 blocks away during the truck rampage in Stockholm). So when I read the news, I called him. Turns out he was on an inbound flight about to land, and they got redirected to Amsterdam."

"And before anyone asks - yes, I'm sure he's not secretly some terrorist mastermind!"

- cHubbyFker

So much cheating and breaking of hearts.

But this goes to show you; when you know... you know.

And that's a generalization, hunches are not just about love.

Don't quiet that inner voice.

Nine times out of ten it's screaming for a reason.

Gut reactions and instincts rarely ever fail.