{"id":920,"date":"2006-10-25T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/changing-your-priorities.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:05:22","slug":"changing-your-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/changing-your-priorities.htm","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who do a Web search on &#8220;divorce&#8221; are at least considering ending their marriage. They may be at the start of decision-making process or they may be very close to their decision.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Consider this:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Is it critical that you end your marriage now?<\/p>\n<p>Can you give one more try to make it work?<\/p>\n<p>Is forgiveness the issue?<\/p>\n<p>Are you letting pride stand between you and the man or woman you pledged to love for the rest of your life?<\/p>\n<p>Is trust the issue? Are you having a difficulty trusting them again?<\/p>\n<p>What do you lose if you trust and they disappoint you again?<\/p>\n<p>What do you gain if you trust and they <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> disappoint you?<\/p>\n<p><b>There are some things that probably won&#8217;t change.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>An abusive relationship probably won&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>A sexual addict probably won&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>A serial cheater probably won&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>A person addicted to drugs or alcohol can change if they choose but sometimes it takes walking away to open their eyes to what&#8217;s at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, my focus has changed. I worry less about the future and live each day as though it might be my last. That may mean putting off difficult decisions for a while. That may mean jumping into projects immediately instead of leisurely studying the angles and then making a decision.<\/p>\n<p>I have less control of &#8220;the future&#8221; than I do this day in front of me. Isn&#8217;t your life the same? What would happen to your priorities if you focused on &#8220;today&#8221; instead of looking backward at things you can&#8217;t change or forward at the unknown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who do a Web search on &#8220;divorce&#8221; are at least considering ending their marriage. They may be at the start of decision-making process or they may be very close to their decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}