{"id":854,"date":"2006-10-23T18:38:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T22:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/divorce-lessons.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:33:33","slug":"divorce-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/divorce-lessons.htm","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Divorce changes your life forever. It teaches you things about yourself that you would never have known otherwise.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDivorce teaches you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that you are capable of much more than you ever thought you were.<br \/>\n&#8230;that being strong is easy when you believe in yourself, and almost impossible when you don&#8217;t.<br \/>\n&#8230;that actions are much more important than words.<br \/>\n&#8230;that children aren&#8217;t blind to the problems of their parents.<br \/>\n&#8230;that good friends are an invaluable source of strength.<br \/>\n&#8230;that some friends are not worth keeping.<br \/>\n&#8230;that money isn&#8217;t the source of all happiness.<br \/>\n&#8230;that forgiveness is a difficult and long process.<br \/>\n&#8230;that anger is part of the healing process.<br \/>\n&#8230;that being alone and single is far less painful than being married and lonely.<br \/>\n&#8230;that love doesn&#8217;t last forever.<br \/>\n&#8230;that people change.<br \/>\n&#8230;that nothing worth having comes easily.<br \/>\n&#8230;that the price of infidelity can far exceed its pleasure.<br \/>\n&#8230;that even spouses have their limits.<br \/>\n&#8230;that one person cannot keep a marriage together.<br \/>\n&#8230;that one person can break a marriage apart.<br \/>\n&#8230;that lies and love don&#8217;t mix.<br \/>\n&#8230;that lust can destroy love.<br \/>\n&#8230;that the legal system is not always fair.<br \/>\n&#8230;that no matter how bad your life is, there is someone pretty close by whose life is far worse.<br \/>\n&#8230;that it&#8217;s important to use caution before you fall in love.<br \/>\n&#8230;that emotional infidelity can be more dangerous than physical infidelity.<br \/>\n&#8230;how much you never knew about the person you trusted with your life.<br \/>\n&#8230;that waiting for someone else to change is pointless.<br \/>\n&#8230;that if you want control of your life, you must take it instead of waiting for someone to give it to you.<br \/>\n&#8230;that possessions are a poor substitute for love.<br \/>\n&#8230;that hindsight isn&#8217;t always 20\/20.<br \/>\n&#8230;that you must learn to trust your instincts.<br \/>\n&#8230;that ultimately it&#8217;s all up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divorce changes your life forever. It teaches you things about yourself that you would never have known otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}