{"id":333,"date":"2008-01-24T22:53:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/24\/an-essential-skill-in-a-successful-marriage\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:53:56","slug":"an-essential-skill-in-a-successful-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"An Essential Skill in a Successful Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to remain calm when your wishes are unfulfilled is an essential skill in a successful marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are honest with yourself, you will agree that not getting exactly what you want from your partner is a major challenge in even a good relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 One reason this happens is that we experience such minor disappointments on a regular basis.\u00c2\u00a0 Our partners do things against our wishes every day, and even if they do what we want sometimes, it is not exactly the way we wanted.\u00c2\u00a0 Learning how to cope with this successfully is essential&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Forgiving your partner does not mean you have to accept everything your lover does.\u00c2\u00a0 It simply means you can contentedly live with your lover without getting upset every time he or she chooses to ignore your wishes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em>Forgive for Love, <\/em>p. 16-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to remain calm when your wishes are unfulfilled is an essential skill in a successful marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are honest with yourself, you will agree that not getting exactly what you want from your partner is a major challenge in even a good relationship.\u00c2\u00a0 One reason this happens is that we experience such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}