{"id":642,"date":"2008-10-18T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T23:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/18\/the-truth\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T23:58:49","slug":"the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the truth with all its potential for causing pain is real and enduring &#8212; it won&#8217;t go away.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the confusing and ephemeral lie, the truth informs, clarifies, and teaches.\u00c2\u00a0 The truth <em>feels <\/em>right because it <em>is <\/em>right.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the particular relationship they were in didn&#8217;t have a happy ending, the women who were told the truth were given a powerful gift.\u00c2\u00a0 They finally had a chance to understand what was really happening.\u00c2\u00a0 They had won another chance to build their future on more solid ground.\u00c2\u00a0 Although they had feared the truth, it was the lie and all it represented that had caused them and their partnerships the most grievous damage and robbed them of choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dory Hollander, PhD, <em>101 Lies Men Tell Women: And Why Women Believe Them, <\/em>p. 270-271<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the truth with all its potential for causing pain is real and enduring &#8212; it won&#8217;t go away.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the confusing and ephemeral lie, the truth informs, clarifies, and teaches.\u00c2\u00a0 The truth feels right because it is right. Even if the particular relationship they were in didn&#8217;t have a happy ending, the women who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}