{"id":408,"date":"2008-12-10T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2008-12-10T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T02:02:00","slug":"space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Space.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space&#8230; I have been thinking of space&#8230; personal space, space in a friendship, space in a relationship&#8230;<br \/>How much is good? How much is telling of issues that are really there?  What makes for a comfortable space?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any idea what I am talking about?  Today I was thinking of a friend, realizing I haven&#8217;t talked to them in a while&#8230; an unusually long while (no it isn&#8217;t you!!!)&#8230; and realizing that I don&#8217;t miss that interaction.  The thought of making that connection again felt tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are friendships that have space just because of life at the moment.  But you know you will reconnect in a week or a month and its always good.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the friendships that go by the wayside and I wonder what happened.  Actually I usually know what happened.  I will stop calling or initiating &#8230; and bam&#8230; nothing happens.  Then I really wonder&#8230; what was there really?  That can be hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>I need easy.  I need real.  I need the back and forth.  Space &#8230; it must be just comfortable space.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of space that occurs when you really get to know someone&#8230; and it can be disappointing when there is that character flaw.  You wonder how come you never saw it&#8230; and really how big is it?  Can you accept it?  How important is that person?  That is really the deciding factor.  Some traits can be overlooked&#8230; if love for the person is bigger than the flaw.<\/p>\n<p>Some people&#8230; it is just easy.  I love easy.  Where have you been my whole life?  I know that if I don&#8217;t talk to you for a few weeks &#8230; it is all good.  We will hook up when we hook up.<\/p>\n<p>Others I miss when I haven&#8217;t spoken to them in the day.<\/p>\n<p>As I am real with my time and feelings with each person in my life&#8230; I find it becoming easier to just take the space I need&#8230; and be OK with it.<\/p>\n<p>Where is this all coming from?  Today I saw someone I had not connected in a while.  And I felt guilty.  I know they are wondering where I have gone.  Yet&#8230; i need space right now.  I feel sucked dry when with them.  Yet, feel that I needed to be there for them.  <\/p>\n<p>So now that I am really listening to me&#8230;  I wonder where this will all go?  Will I just continue to be there for them&#8230; and not worry about me and what I am not getting&#8230;   Maybe it is OK to have these people in your life.  Just as long as you control that number.<\/p>\n<p>Just my thoughts and ramblings&#8230;  maybe it is my guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space&#8230; I have been thinking of space&#8230; personal space, space in a friendship, space in a relationship&#8230;How much is good? How much is telling of issues that are really there? What makes for a comfortable space? Do you have any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}