{"id":336,"date":"2008-01-25T23:31:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/25\/connection-is-the-key\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:31:51","slug":"connection-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Connection Is the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as nothing can be more important to you as an individual than remaining true to your core value, nothing can be more important to you as a couple than your emotional connection to one another.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot resolve disputes with someone you love while being emotionally <em>disconnected <\/em>from that person.\u00c2\u00a0 The disconnection hurts too much and feels too much like betrayal.\u00c2\u00a0 To have any chance of finding your way out of a power struggle, you must try hard to make connection <em>before <\/em>you even attempt to solve the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Your relationship has to be more important than the content of your disagreement, as does the emotional well-being of the most important adult in your life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>You Don&#8217;t Have to Take It Anymore, <\/em>p. 298<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as nothing can be more important to you as an individual than remaining true to your core value, nothing can be more important to you as a couple than your emotional connection to one another. You cannot resolve disputes with someone you love while being emotionally disconnected from that person.\u00c2\u00a0 The disconnection hurts too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-marriage","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}