{"id":7130,"date":"2018-09-17T22:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2018-09-17T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:59:20","slug":"its-all-about-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7130","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All About Connection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Love-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Love-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Love-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Love-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Love-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We communicate well with our intimate partners when we feel connected and poorly when we don&#8217;t.  When you feel connected again, your desire to explore feelings with your partner will practically vanish.  It&#8217;s a great combination:  He&#8217;ll be able to do more of it, you&#8217;ll want less of it, and you&#8217;ll meet in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, think <em>connection<\/em>, not <em>communication<\/em>.  Then you won&#8217;t shame him and he won&#8217;t make you afraid.  Nor will he drive you away.  Instead, he&#8217;ll fall back in love with you long before you walk out the door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/how_to_improve_your_marriage.html\">How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It<\/a><\/em>, p. 64<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, March 17, 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We communicate well with our intimate partners when we feel connected and poorly when we don&#8217;t. When you feel connected again, your desire to explore feelings with your partner will practically vanish. It&#8217;s a great combination: He&#8217;ll be able to do more of it, you&#8217;ll want less of it, and you&#8217;ll meet in the middle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection","category-marriage","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130","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=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}