{"id":21423,"date":"2012-10-02T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=21423"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:27:31","slug":"ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll only talk you off the ledge so many times, then I have to set you free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-21424\" title=\"talk off the ledge\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/talk-off-the-ledge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Why did I un-friend you? If I don&#8217;t know you, it may just be that you haven&#8217;t made yourself visible to me, so I don&#8217;t yet know how interesting and cool you are and how relevant and important you might be to my life. \u00a0If so, send me a msg and I&#8217;m glad to re-friend you. \u00a0If I DO know you and I have un-friended you, one reason I&#8217;ll do that is when you consciously choose to repeat a past error and pretend you don&#8217;t know it, then want me to counsel with you about it when you clearly didn&#8217;t listen the first twenty times. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?page_id=3378\">Domino<\/a>\u00a0poured her heart out to me <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17140\">a year ago over someone<\/a> who she said played her, ripped her heart out, jeopardized her marriage and made her suicidal. \u00a0After months of back and forth talking her off the ledge several times and repeatedly telling her to put it behind her, I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16844\">it finally was<\/a>. \u00a0Now she&#8217;s chosen to re-engage this person. \u00a0She can do what she wants, bless her, \u00a0bless all of us, I just no longer want a ringside seat to it.<\/p>\n<p>Why are you knocking at every other door?<br \/>\nGo, knock at the door of your own heart.<br \/>\n\u2014Rumi<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16725\">Sometimes I just have to unfriend a friend for awhile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16844\">Recognizing when someone is a sacred step on your journey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I&#8217;ll only talk you off the ledge so many times, then I have to set you free&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=I&#8217;ll%20only%20talk%20you%20off%20the%20ledge%20so%20many%20times,%20then%20I%20have%20to%20set%20you%20free&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ill-only-talk-you-off-the-ledge-so-many-times-then-i-have-to-set-you-free\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I un-friend you? If I don&#8217;t know you, it may just be that you haven&#8217;t made yourself visible to me, so I don&#8217;t yet know how interesting and cool you are and how relevant and important you might be to my life. \u00a0If so, send me a msg and I&#8217;m glad to re-friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21423"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21448,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}