{"id":685,"date":"2008-12-22T00:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T04:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/12\/22\/valuing-our-needs\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T04:32:42","slug":"valuing-our-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Valuing Our Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we don&#8217;t ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We deserve better.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe others taught us it wasn&#8217;t polite or appropriate to speak up for ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 The truth is, if we don&#8217;t, our unmet wants and needs may ultimately come back to haunt our relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 We may end up feeling angry or resentful, or we may begin to punish someone else for not guessing what we need.\u00c2\u00a0 We may end the relationship because it doesn&#8217;t meet our needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>The Language of Letting Go, <\/em>p. 355<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we don&#8217;t ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We deserve better. Maybe others taught us it wasn&#8217;t polite or appropriate to speak up for ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 The truth is, if we don&#8217;t, our unmet wants and needs may ultimately come back to haunt our relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 We may end up feeling angry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-relationships","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}