{"id":7286,"date":"2018-10-18T23:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2018-10-18T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:25:26","slug":"appreciation-and-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7286","title":{"rendered":"Appreciation and Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Love-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Love-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Love-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Love-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Love-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Appreciate<\/em> means to value your partner.  Appreciation, in turn, makes <em>you<\/em> feel more alert and alive; you increase the value of your <em>own<\/em> life when you appreciate your partner in any way.  When your partner feels your appreciation, you don&#8217;t have to worry about whether you compliment or praise him or her enough.  And if you felt your partner&#8217;s appreciation, you wouldn&#8217;t feel so bad that he or she doesn&#8217;t think to compliment you.  As a matter of fact, compliments seem empty if they do not convey in some sense that your life is better at this moment because of the person you appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>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. 101-102<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, November 24, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appreciate means to value your partner. Appreciation, in turn, makes you feel more alert and alive; you increase the value of your own life when you appreciate your partner in any way. When your partner feels your appreciation, you don&#8217;t have to worry about whether you compliment or praise him or her enough. And if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-love","category-marriage","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","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=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}