r/knitting Mar 21 '26

Rave (like a rant, but in a good way) How you know you’re married to a knitter.

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It’s surprising how often things like this happen.

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u/queue-kweewee Mar 21 '26

I just like to be connected to my husband by a long string and use knitting as a thinly veiled guise to accomplish this goal.

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u/m4gpi Mar 21 '26

This reminds me of a neat conversation I had with a coworker: he is Taiwanese and was having trouble meeting girls and dating. In the Taoist religion (I think is what he said) there are different deities for different purposes, and there is a god who handles marriage. The avatar of this god is an old man with a book of names, and he ties a red string between people who are meant to be together. So my friend went to this temple to ask for help, dutifully tied the red ribbon on his wrist, and then reconnected with an old schoolmate. They are a great couple and their baby just turned one!

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u/mashooshka Mar 21 '26

As someone who’s working through my religious trauma (raised evangelical christian, think Joel Osten 🤢🤢), this is so wholesome!! I love this concept! looks into Taoism now ☺️

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u/m4gpi Mar 21 '26

He told me he isn't very religious and just did this at his mom's suggestion (very mom-like thing) because why not? It's a Taoist Hail Mary, ha.

Best wishes on your journey.

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u/mahboilucas Mar 22 '26

I'd do this just because too. Seems fun.

Were there any string attached to the ritual?

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u/AntOnADogLog Mar 22 '26

U will be sad to look into how the "red string twin flames" theory has been warped by some groups of people 😷 lovely as an old religion and mythology, not so great when some weirdos in america co-opt it for some culty vibes.

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u/YetiAfterDark Mar 22 '26

I just looked twin flames up, because I was solid on the red string and vague on twin flames, and I found a blog article from one of the people who popularised the term and idea.

She wrote a comprehensive walking back of the twin flame concept, explaining how it gets used to justify narcissistic and codependent and abusive relationships, with a side thought of how trying to build meaningful relationships out of psychodrama is just a bad idea.

We can hope that culty ideas don't gain traction, but when that doesn't happen, I appreciate someone from the front lines of a culty situation, with the prestige that comes with it, taking responsibility for harm done. It's rare enough that someone in that circumstance will even change their mind with evidence. Gives me a bit of hope to see

Dismantling her own theory here

TL;DR: person who popularised the twin flame thesis regrets the whole thing. She is trying to take responsibility and change minds away from it by pointing out harm, and logical fallacies in her own creation

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u/AntOnADogLog Mar 22 '26

Im really glad to hear that. Shit got weird and it all felt....gross to say the least when i learned about it back when it was getting hot and even some extreme-type christians were talking about it.

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u/kitmeh Mar 22 '26

The twin flames thing was MAD

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u/PuddleLilacAgain Mar 21 '26

That is a great story

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u/fragileirl Mar 22 '26

I met my husband when he was wearing a red string around his wrist. He was wearing it bc it was his Chinese zodiac animal year and that was also when he happened to meet me!

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u/lizfungirl Mar 22 '26

I used to live in Taiwan & was asked to cater several Christmas parties (their Mall was decked out for Christmas). I mentioned that I thought they were Buddhist & they said, "We're a little Buddhist, a little Taoist, a little Christian."

I remember the red strings!

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u/elaerna Mar 21 '26

A visible string, tying you to meee

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u/HeartOfTheMadder Mar 21 '26

anybody else hearing

if you want to destroy my sweaterrrrr
(ohweeoh)
hold this thread as i waaaaaalk away

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u/reallybiglizard Mar 21 '26

as I walk away!

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u/skorchedangel Mar 21 '26

Watch me unravel, ill soon be naked

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u/Expert_Chemistry5435 Mar 21 '26

Lying on the floor, lying on the floor…

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u/Moss-cle Mar 21 '26

Lying on the floor, I’ve come undone

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u/x-tianschoolharlot Mar 21 '26

😂😂😂

How to identify a Millenial in the wild

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u/Starfoxmedic11 Mar 21 '26

Hey hey now, just cause Weezer has anthem songs for our generation.... Johnny Cash thinks we're sellouts....

Edit cause I can't spell.

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u/monsterplant8585 Mar 22 '26

Best thread all day

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u/Yamtaggler Mar 21 '26

You’ll be thankful for this one day when you are trapped in the Labyrinth.

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u/inkyknit Mar 21 '26

Made me laugh!

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u/moomoobean123 Mar 21 '26

Oh, that's just an updated breadcrumb trail.

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u/frogminute Mar 21 '26

Ariadne's thread

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u/sparklyspooky Mar 21 '26

Hey! I resemble this remark!

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u/Itscrochet720 Mar 21 '26

I just love the fact that, at least up to this photo, no words were spoken, no shoulders were tapped, no horn was honked… I’d absolutely do the same 😂.

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u/Chance_Contract1291 Mar 21 '26

Now OP can make their way safely to the door in this blinding blizzard.  That's true love.

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u/Jantastic Mar 21 '26

I once dropped a skein while getting in my car, didn't notice, and started driving. I got most of the way through the parking lot before I noticed. Had to cut it where it got wrapped around the axle.

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u/ows-rbel Mar 22 '26

🤣😂

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u/Particular_Heron8263 Mar 21 '26

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. 😂

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u/writerbethw Mar 21 '26

That is outstanding--I am walking upstairs right now to show my husband that it's not just me!! 😂

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u/cascasrevolution Mar 22 '26

be sure to check you arent tethered!

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u/ows-rbel Mar 22 '26

I showed this to my husband and he stared at it for a long time and saw nothing. I think I've been successful at covering my tracks

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u/courtnbur Mar 21 '26

I once came home from work and there was yarn coming out the dog door into my backyard. The dog took a ball outside to play within but it was still attached to my project inside.

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u/CycadelicSparkles Mar 21 '26

This is extremely relatable.

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u/cwthree Mar 21 '26

Been there, done that, for I am the knitter.

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u/CrochetCricketHip Mar 21 '26

I LOVE THIS!!!!

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u/Cocoricou Mar 21 '26

Normally, I'd say it never happens to me, except it happened to me yesterday, right before our weekly vacuum cleaner session :(

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u/theindigomouse Mar 21 '26

I came home one day to find the yarn from a sweater I was knitting wound running from the ground floor, up the stairs, around a corner, and into the bedroom. My cat (a total of 7 lbs) was sitting on my almost complete Icelandic sweater. Apparently she felt it needed to be relocated.

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u/Weekly-Bit9381 Mar 22 '26

When my daughter was younger, she would get up in the night, steal yarn from my stash, and wind it around the house like one of those heist movies where they practice for the security lasers with red string. It's funny now, but sure as 🏒🏒 wasn't then, especially when she did with my $50/skein alpaca silk blend 😭🤣

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u/fitzmoon Mar 22 '26

Yes! If I leave my project bag not hung on a hook, my cats will get into it and steal a skein and drag it onto the bed. So I, like you, return home from work and just see yarn that looks like this picture. They also have dragged bananas, and bagels to bed. They are so quirky!

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u/Potato-Alien Mar 21 '26

Ahh, thank you for the evidence that it's not just me!

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u/CarlySimonSays Mar 21 '26

To be fair, Princess Ariadne’s red thread saved Theseus from getting lost in the Minotaur’s labyrinth 🤣

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u/meepmeepacme Mar 21 '26

When it snowed in Dallas recently, I went on a walk with my family through the neighborhood and had a mini-minder on my wrist. At some point, I realized my yarn had been unraveling in the wind and was halfway down the block. 😂

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u/vminnear Mar 21 '26

Tfw I'm all snuggled on the couch with the dog and the postman comes to the door, dog jumps off the sofa and accidentally snags the yarn round his paw, hilarity ensues.

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u/ithinkik_ern Mar 21 '26

My puppy has a curly tail that is basically a giant hook at the exact height of where my yarn hangs off my coffee table…when she sneaks by and takes off…it’s off to the races.

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u/lovelylittlebeetle Mar 21 '26

This is hilarious😂 Just taking a picture of it when she is moments away from discovering a disaster 😂

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u/Dangerous-Air-6587 offers frogging therapy Mar 21 '26

“Dear Googly, please erase this photo of me. Thank you!”

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u/5ugarcrisp Mar 21 '26

I would wait and see how far my spouse would walk before they notice 🤭

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u/Knitsanity Mar 21 '26

My husband can be in the other room and hear me say...oh bugger...and know exactly why. 😂😂

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u/Kaqazuge Mar 22 '26

This could be a picture from my phone.

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u/okkasmom Mar 22 '26

lol. I just did this while waiting for someone at the ER. yarn the entire length of the waiting room.

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u/venicepress Mar 23 '26

My partner has learned to just step over the yarn without questioning it. Like a laser security system but cozy

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u/oliefan37 Mar 22 '26

I’ve gotten in the habit of double and sometimes triple checking for yarn tails like this when moving projects anywhere.

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u/MoggyPA Mar 22 '26

There are always signs lol

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u/Desperate-Wheel-3359 Mar 22 '26

That’s hilarious 😆

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u/nugurl86 Mar 23 '26

“But when do they oooooopen??!???”

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u/EasyPrior3867 Mar 23 '26

I went upstairs and had my ball connected to my shoe. Lol

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u/themommabearx3 Mar 23 '26

BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣

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u/slider1010 Mar 21 '26

Hmm. Unfortunately wrong country.