{"id":33916,"date":"2013-11-27T07:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33916"},"modified":"2013-11-27T07:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:13:33","slug":"ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping Pong Hearts &#8211; the holiday back and forth begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ping-pong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33918\" alt=\"ping pong\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ping-pong.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>This is a common theme during holidays. For many it&#8217;s a stressful time, and people can tend to bonk out. The sentimental season can draw us to familiar people who we might be better off without. \u00a0Since it&#8217;s a Universal pattern I see each holiday time, I share this here. \u00a0A galpal heard from an ex she&#8217;s ready to be done with, and wrote: &#8220;So&#8230; big conversation&#8230; some emails&#8230; and silence. Is this the ebb and flow of a &#8220;I need to feel safe and in control&#8221; return? (Sheesh&#8230;)&#8221;. I responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s some of that and some of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I want and until something else peaks my interest, I&#8217;m gonna toss random balls into your batting cage since it&#8217;s familiar and I need comforting right now.&#8221; There&#8217;ll likely be enough back and forth over the holidays to keep you hopeful yet irked and another disappearing act for January. I see another man at holiday time, any time now in fact. But it&#8217;s still not over&#8230; Whether that&#8217;s good news or bad news, don&#8217;t take score too soon.&#8221; And remember if \u00a0you&#8217;ve got your attention filled with the wrong one, there&#8217;s no room for the right one to come in.<\/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\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Ping Pong Hearts &#8211; the holiday back and forth begins&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/\" 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\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/\" 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=Ping%20Pong%20Hearts%20&#8211;%20the%20holiday%20back%20and%20forth%20begins&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ping-pong-hearts-the-holiday-back-and-forth-begins\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common theme during holidays. For many it&#8217;s a stressful time, and people can tend to bonk out. The sentimental season can draw us to familiar people who we might be better off without. \u00a0Since it&#8217;s a Universal pattern I see each holiday time, I share this here. \u00a0A galpal heard from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916","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=33916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33919,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916\/revisions\/33919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}