{"id":215,"date":"2012-08-15T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/15\/better-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:27:41","slug":"better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/better-2\/","title":{"rendered":"better&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the problems I have, all the problems Sunshine has, and all the problems we wind up having together, you gotta give us extra credit for sticking together. This is the most committed relationship I&#8217;ve had &#8212; at both ends. Even when it&#8217;s bad, we both want it to be good.&nbsp; Sometimes the same thing happens over and over again, and I refuse to believe it is conscious and willful on my sweetie&#8217;s part.&nbsp; I know I&#8217;m just as responsible for getting rid of my triggers as she is for not pushing them, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>We may be in quicksand, but we&#8217;re in it together. And even though the movement forward feels like we&#8217;re walking through quicksand, we have only been together a few months (living together since the end of February) and have come farther emotionally than I have in any previous relationship.&nbsp; So I&#8217;ll try harder to celebrate where we are and that we&#8217;re still moving forward, instead of how much I hurt today (and try to totally forget how much I hurt yesterday).<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8212; Xanga, I liked your old editor (now unsupported) better. I should not have upgraded my account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the problems I have, all the problems Sunshine has, and all the problems we wind up having together, you gotta give us extra credit for sticking together. This is the most committed relationship I&#8217;ve had &#8212; at both ends. Even when it&#8217;s bad, we both want it to be good.&nbsp; Sometimes the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}