{"id":158,"date":"2007-10-22T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/22\/living-single\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T21:40:16","slug":"living-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Living Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay to be in a relationship, but it&#8217;s also okay to not be in a relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 Find friends to love, be loved by, and who think we are worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Love ourselves and know we are worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Use our time alone as a breather.\u00c2\u00a0 Let go.\u00c2\u00a0 Learn the lessons we are to be learning.\u00c2\u00a0 Grow.\u00c2\u00a0 Develop.\u00c2\u00a0 Work on ourselves, so when love comes along, it enhances a full and interesting life.\u00c2\u00a0 Love shouldn&#8217;t be the concern of our whole life or an escape from an unpleasant life.\u00c2\u00a0 Strive toward goals.\u00c2\u00a0 Have fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Trust God and His timing.\u00c2\u00a0 He cares and knows about all our needs and wants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>Codependent No More,<\/em> p. 213-214<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay to be in a relationship, but it&#8217;s also okay to not be in a relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 Find friends to love, be loved by, and who think we are worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Love ourselves and know we are worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Use our time alone as a breather.\u00c2\u00a0 Let go.\u00c2\u00a0 Learn the lessons we are to be learning.\u00c2\u00a0 Grow.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-love","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}