{"id":5882,"date":"2012-06-25T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:34:45","slug":"my-superficial-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2012\/06\/25\/my-superficial-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of My Superficial Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed.jpg\" alt=\"Committed\" title=\"Committed\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For decades I\u2019ve been in a casual relationship with you. I wasn&#8217;t ready to commit to you fully.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am not feeling so balanced, and my commitment to you, as usual, wants to falter. And yet I am here.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we\u2019ve been working towards. A space where I feel trust and commitment in my relationship with you, my writing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken a slow build-up to get here, our relationship has been like learning to speak, and learning to love, a language. A little bit of practice each day and eventually I\u2019ve found myself feeling more natural with you.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I find myself where I wanted to go. I can feel the love I have for you again. Of all the things I desire, feeling my love for you was what I wanted most of all.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that it showed again when I committed to showing up for you. <\/p>\n<p>You are a relationship I want to nurture and support, to be present to, and I am learning to care for you as I would any partner in my life. You are no longer my superficial love, we are no longer casual. I am committed to grow with you through whatever life brings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xanxhor\/3745493122\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed.jpg\" alt=\"Committed\" title=\"Committed\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Committed-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades I\u2019ve been in a casual relationship with you. I wasn&#8217;t ready to commit to you fully.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am not feeling so balanced, and my commitment to you, as usual, wants to falter. And yet I am here.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we\u2019ve been working towards. A space where I feel trust and commitment in my relationship with you, my writing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken a slow build-up to get here, our relationship has been like learning to speak, and learning to love, a language. A little bit of practice each day and eventually I\u2019ve found myself feeling more natural with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,67,69],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind","tag-commitment","tag-relationship","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}