{"id":15069,"date":"2009-12-26T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2009-12-26T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T05:46:02","slug":"passionate-marriage-keeping-love-intimacy-alive-in-committed-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15069","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love &#038; Intimacy Alive In Committed Relationships&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/passionatemarriage.com\/\">This is the best psychology book I&#8217;ve read all year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it is the book I most need to read. <\/p>\n<p>When I have love in my life, I put most of my emotions (providing that everything else in my life is in order) into that and I bob up and down depending on the success of my love life.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a strong sense of self. I depend on the success of my love life to feel good about myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up to page 151. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: &#8220;One property of marital systems is the vulnerability of increasing importance of one&#8217;s partner: your partner&#8217;s increasing importance over time naturally increases your vulnerability, which in turn fosters sexual boredom and low desire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Schnarch begins the book with this point &#8212; nobody is ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best psychology book I&#8217;ve read all year. And it is the book I most need to read. When I have love in my life, I put most of my emotions (providing that everything else in my life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[619,21],"tags":[20690,20688,8273,2858,20414,20689],"class_list":["post-15069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage","category-personal","tag-boredom","tag-dr-schnarch","tag-intimacy","tag-love-life","tag-passionate-marriage","tag-psychology-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15076,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}