{"id":252,"date":"2007-12-16T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/16\/the-key-to-intimate-relationships\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T18:59:23","slug":"the-key-to-intimate-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"The Key to Intimate Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the hot and hard truth:\u00c2\u00a0 Only your own loving behavior can make you feel <em>worthy <\/em>of love.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not rocket science.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way to feel lovable is to be loving and compassionate.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion is the most important emotion for forging intimate relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 It contributes far more to happiness than love does.\u00c2\u00a0 Relationships can be happy with low levels of love and high levels of compassion, but not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>You Don&#8217;t Have to Take It Anymore, <\/em>p. 207<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the hot and hard truth:\u00c2\u00a0 Only your own loving behavior can make you feel worthy of love.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not rocket science.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way to feel lovable is to be loving and compassionate. Compassion is the most important emotion for forging intimate relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 It contributes far more to happiness than love does.\u00c2\u00a0 Relationships can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}