View Full Version : Great minds think alike!
Von Teese
23-12-09, 04:03 AM
It's been going on for just about as long as we have been friends and then a couple...
Mr VT and I seem to be on an eerily similar (if not exactly the same) wavelength.
It ranges from liking the same music, food, outdoor pursuits, animals, cars, bikes, decorating the house, etc to general things like thinking the same thing at the same time (which happens at least twice a day).
We are so alike in our ways and thinking that its difficult to plan suprises etc.
Last month I rumbled his plan to take me to Paris for our anniversary, now Ive found out that he was planning to take me on my birthday next year, only problem is:
Ive already booked a trip to Paris for HIS birthday (which is the month after mine) and Ive had to confess that I beat him to it.
But my question is:
I was wondering if this was a common thing or if we were just lucky. How many .orgers have experienced this with their partner?
My mrs knows 99% of the time what I’m thinking. :smt115
but I never had the foggiest idea what’s on her mind 100% of the time.:scratch:
In your case your lucky.
BanannaMan
23-12-09, 05:43 AM
Very lucky indeed! :thumbsup:
Count your blessings, my wife and I are proof that opposites attract.
We don't like the same anything... music, food, outdoor pursuits, animals, cars, bikes, etc.
But somehow after 26 years we're still attracted so I guess I'll keep her a while longer. ;)
You are living the dream hun! Enjoy it!!! You are one of the few.
We do think the same things - we hate each other :D
Only kidding.
We're old-ish and still hold hands when we're out. And are both very young at heart. We spend the vast majority of our spare time together.
Spookily one will start a sentence only for the other to say, "I know" before the subject is reached.
"I know"
Can't help thinking of Sybil Fawlty........ :lol:
dont suffer frmo thinking the same as my missus as im 10 times more brainer than her!
Drew Carey
23-12-09, 08:50 AM
My mrs knows 99% of the time what I’m thinking. :smt115
but I never had the foggiest idea what’s on her mind 100% of the time.:scratch:
In your case your lucky.
For me....Lily knows what I'm thinking 99% of the time......yet I have no chuffing idea what I am thinking myself.....let alone her!!!! :-)
Me and Verna always seemed to be thinking the same thing, or even go to say the exact same thing!
me and falc are like you guys he knows what i am thinking and i seem to know what he is thinking
Drew is right.... I think for the both of us..... that way he doesn't get hurt by trying to think!! ;-)
The only person who really knows whats going on in my head is my sister as we are both the same.
Quiff Wichard
23-12-09, 09:56 AM
It's been going on for just about as long as we have been friends and then a couple...
Mr VT and I seem to be on an eerily similar (if not exactly the same) wavelength.
It ranges from liking the same music, food, outdoor pursuits, animals, cars, bikes, decorating the house, etc to general things like thinking the same thing at the same time (which happens at least twice a day).
We are so alike in our ways and thinking that its difficult to plan suprises etc.
Last month I rumbled his plan to take me to Paris for our anniversary, now Ive found out that he was planning to take me on my birthday next year, only problem is:
Ive already booked a trip to Paris for HIS birthday (which is the month after mine) and Ive had to confess that I beat him to it.
But my question is:
I was wondering if this was a common thing or if we were just lucky. How many .orgers have experienced this with their partner?
isnt that how it should be >> with love...
isnt that how it should be >> with love...
:puker::puker::puker::puker::puker:
dizzyblonde
23-12-09, 10:39 AM
Its a very common thing. Me and the winged one think alike so much we finish off each others sentences, or if we're out on the road in the car notice something and just as the other one starts to say something, the other is saying the same thing. We love the same music, are just as random as each other, and dance the same tune constantly. We're even OCD in the same way. We're still very much early stages but I reckon on given time, we'd be doing the same thing with birthday surprises.:-)
On a funny note, we're both as blind as bats, and he didn't even notice me shoving stuff in the shopping trolley yesterday...good job, cause there were some nice surprises in there for him.!!
Alpinestarhero
23-12-09, 10:46 AM
Me and maria have some similarites...we're both kind of shy of large social events, we don;t like clubs, we like the same sorts of comedy shows and that kind of thing. We do often think the same things about stuff, and we both want to go to some of the same places (canada is one place we agree on :D) and we want to avoid some places too (deep south america!)
I think that the person you settle down with is the person who you share the closest opinons about things with, the same ideas on how things should be :) Me and maria dont like all the same things (she dosnt like Have I Got News For You, i dont like some of the reality police chase shows, she dosnt like car racing, that sorta thing) but if you had a ven diagram of us, we'd overlap looooaaadddsss :D
oh, and VT - me and maria were first friends aswell, and planned to remain as such since I lived in brighton and she lived in london and we were both scared of the travelling. But you can't stop something like love (awwww) so we just let ourselves fall for each other :-D she's the only girl who'd have me really, I don;t think anyone else could put up with me. I guess her advantage is she can switch off her hearing aids and ignore me when I get irritating :lol:
bikerchick82
23-12-09, 11:07 AM
Yeah, me and Mr BC think alike....
I think he's a **** and he thinks I'm a **** :thumbsup:
Seriously though, sometimes I know exactly what he's thinking or about to do, the man is like an open book to me at times, at others he's worse than a woman!
He seems to know me pretty damn well, in fact probably better than I know myself.
Apart from the love of Kawasaki's, we're not really that similar, he's very laid back, easy going and it takes a lot to get him wound up.
Me? The complete opposite, I can get pretty stressed out (most of the time because I think he's not stressing enough :-s ) I'm easy going to a point but am also very very stubborn and I have a very Celtic temper.....When I blow, by 'eck do I blow! (And not in a good way!)
I'm also a bit of a workaholic (ask VT, she'll tell you ;) ) whereas Mr BC is content to just let work come to him in it's own time.....
Jayneflakes
23-12-09, 11:11 AM
Carol and I think very differently and she is able to surprise me quite easily. I am also able to do the same to her, but then I am quite cunning and devious by nature anyway (typical Scorpio I fear). There have been times when we think the same thing at exactly the same time and for about 80% of the time we are very similar in what we enjoy in life.
However, when we do differ, we differ wildly. I think that this does present the occasional problem to be honest, but we over come it through talking, sharing our love for each other and compromising. Also if I don't want to do something that she does, she threatens to break my legs until I do it.
I love Carol with all of my heart which is why we got engaged in October, but I still need my time when I disappear into my world and go climbing, mountain biking or walking and need to be on my own. I know that Carol does not always understand this, but she is gracious enough to have a hot bath waiting for me when I get back.
VT, I think that you are both very lucky and have something very special. Send him my love and let him know that we think he is a legend.
Love you Honey.
XXXXX
Alpinestarhero
23-12-09, 11:12 AM
Yeah, me and Mr BC think alike....
I think he's a **** and he thinks I'm a **** :thumbsup:
Seriously though, sometimes I know exactly what he's thinking or about to do, the man is like an open book to me at times, at others he's worse than a woman!
He seems to know me pretty damn well, in fact probably better than I know myself.
Apart from the love of Kawasaki's, we're not really that similar, he's very laid back, easy going and it takes a lot to get him wound up.
Me? The complete opposite, I can get pretty stressed out (most of the time because I think he's not stressing enough :-s ) I'm easy going to a point but am also very very stubborn and I have a very Celtic temper.....When I blow, by 'eck do I blow! (And not in a good way!)
I'm also a bit of a workaholic (ask VT, she'll tell you ;) ) whereas Mr BC is content to just let work come to him in it's own time.....
all those reasons make you excellent fun to take the P out of on facebook
:smt041
bikerchick82
23-12-09, 11:15 AM
:smt012
Dammit, I will think about what I'm posting before I press the button!
:smt012
Take the mickey......You'll get it ripped straight back out of you :smt027
Alpinestarhero
23-12-09, 11:24 AM
like to see you try...women.
sorry VT, deailing now
eerrrr, back on topic...yea, being in love with someone who shares the same ideas about life as you is great :D
Owenski
23-12-09, 11:27 AM
Am I the only one that thinks this would be a bad thing?
Yeah me an Abi bicker over silly misunderstandings, which it would be nice to avoid sometimes but the rest of the time its the nice little suprises which make everything interesting.
I'd hate to suprise her and her expression be "well I kinda figured it out/oh look I've got you one as well"
We're partners not clones, I dont want to date myself I want to learn about someone new. Fair enough if we'd been together for 20yrs I might know when the hamsters wheel is turning in her head but other than that I dont really want to be able to predict her ever movement, no way. It sounds like hell tbh.
Alpinestarhero
23-12-09, 11:35 AM
leedsmatt - i think your right. there needs to be some differances to make things interesting...maria, being half greek-cypriot, has opened my mind up to all sorts of new foods. Her interest in psychology measn there are lots of books which i would have never read but have, and also her enjoyment of fiction means I read fiction books now when I never did.
There needs to be some disimilarities between each other, so you both may expand who you are and find new things in life. Maria had never even thought about motorcycle racing before we met, yet now she does enjoy a good motorcycle race (she shouts at the TV more that I do sometimes!)
A relationship dosnt work though if you have very very differant ideas about how things should be. If maria disliked science and motorcycles, and was an avid christian, we'd never be together :lol:
Milky Bar Kid
23-12-09, 11:47 AM
Even I don't know what I am thinking half of the time...
Von Teese
23-12-09, 12:18 PM
Wow what an amazing response, its great to see how many happy couples are out there and I think that in these times of redundancy and credit crunching etc, etc it just goes to show that the important things are still close to people's hearts.
It also shows a common theme:
Whether you are totally opposite in your ways and thinking or far too similar for comfort (I did check our family trees lol) there is always a soulmate out there for each of us.
Alpinestarhero - The friends thing.... Mr VT was a friend for a few months and one day something happened and we realised what we wanted...each other!
My 2 previous boyfriends were initially my friends and nothing more (Im still friends with them now). I think that is quite useful being friends first too because then you know what you are letting yourself into.
Leedsmatt- I know what you are saying, however because we are from such different backgrounds (I grew up in South Africa), I have introduced him to a lot of new things that I like and he has done the same.
It's just fortunate that when we do share new things, enjoy them, which I find to be fun and easier.
Ive been introduced to offroading (now I have my own Landie to play in the mud with) and I have introduced him to snowboarding...
Next year, Mr VT is going to be doing his Open Water PADI course with my Instructor and we are going to scuba somewhere (I would love to take him to the Red Sea). I think he will enjoy it as he took to the ocean in South Africa like a fish and we both have a love of marine life.
yorkie_chris
23-12-09, 01:12 PM
:puker:
Alpinestarhero
23-12-09, 01:14 PM
:puker:
i bet you are dead romantic really
:love:
We've had the same a couple of times with presents buying each other the same present
though we are having more lapses these days which is more reassuring. he always has to ask just to make sure he was right in his thinking
missyburd
23-12-09, 02:00 PM
i bet you are dead romantic really
:love:
Errrm are we on about the same bloke here? :rolleyes::p
:puker:
+ 1 million zillion trillion cabillion
fastdruid
24-12-09, 10:45 AM
We're very alike in somethings, very different in others.
I sometimes suprise Mrs Druid with guessing exactly what she is thinking, which confuses the hell out of her and I'll get a "How did you know I was thinking that?"
Othertimes I don't have a clue.
Druid
speedplay
24-12-09, 11:12 AM
Jenn and I have some common interests but other than that, we're worlds apart.
God only knows whats going through her mind at any given point!
I'm 50/50 on this one. Soulmates - there is more than one for each person IMO. Mostly I have no idea what SK is thinking but on the up side neither does he :) (with me I mean, before someone gets smart lol). Great that you have such a connection (and so funny with the Paris thing) though.
Von Teese
24-12-09, 03:05 PM
Unfortunately its not just the Paris thing Vixis, remember what I said to you about NZ the other day??
SVStorm
24-12-09, 04:03 PM
HA HA!! VT I am thinking what does this make us then ??? Remember the other day with our conversation on Fbook ?? That was scary
HA HA
I believe there is more than 1 soulmate out there for everyone. Well I hope so as if there is only 1 I still have alot of looking to do to find mine :)
I hate to sound like the NZ tourist board, but - we'd have ya :D xx. SV, do you you have any dates for me yet? And happy crimbo!
Von Teese
24-12-09, 04:28 PM
HA HA!! VT I am thinking what does this make us then ??? Remember the other day with our conversation on Fbook ?? That was scary
I know, well I guess you can have friend soulmates too but you are allowed more than one though ...them's the rulez :thumleft:
I hate to sound like the NZ tourist board, but - we'd have ya :D xx.
Goodie! Well you know my sneaky plan to save up and organise the holiday of a lifetime in NZ to lure Mr VT into loving the place so much he wants to emigrate?
Mr VT's family are whinging as we still haven't told them EXACTLY what we want for Christmas and he said 'how about money' and then he said to me 'then we can try to save up to have a long holiday in NZ'.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhh hhhhhhhhh!:smt005!
me and DD are sometimes scarily alike and other times complete opposites. On many an occasion while we were living 450 miles apart I would call or text him just as he was looking at his phone wondering if I had sent a message. A few years ago we bought each other exactly the same xmas card. I know what he is thinking most of the time as it is one of 2 things, 1 of them being food.
me and DD are sometimes scarily alike and other times complete opposites. On many an occasion while we were living 450 miles apart I would call or text him just as he was looking at his phone wondering if I had sent a message. A few years ago we bought each other exactly the same xmas card. I know what he is thinking most of the time as it is one of 2 things, 1 of them being food.
So if you find a can of spray whipped cream, run? :smt005
Von Teese
24-12-09, 05:50 PM
lol...omg same thing about phoning and texting, often we receive a text (same subject usually) from each other at the same time we've just sent one to each other, or ring each other and it goes to answerphone.
Whipped cream eh? Hmmm...
brb!
I never know what is going on in my other half's mind, in fact I don't even know who she is
Am I still single, I forget?
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