{"id":39760,"date":"2015-03-04T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39760"},"modified":"2015-03-04T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T02:30:58","slug":"you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"You are the only one who determines how long it will go on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/arguing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39762\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/arguing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"arguing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I just had a phone session with a long time friend. She&#8217;s once again broken up with her mate over lies and empty promises.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll get a divorce and we&#8217;ll get married&#8221; he tells her, yet he never does. &#8220;How much longer is this going to go on?&#8221; she asked. An elder friend said it best &#8212; when the f*cking you&#8217;re getting is no longer worth the f*cking you&#8217;re getting, you&#8217;ll stop. I never understood the dramatic, emotional back and forth.\u00a0 At the first blow up, you can count me out.\u00a0 <span data-offset-key=\"iobt-0-0\" data-reactid=\".8p.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$iobt.0:$iobt-0-0\"><span data-reactid=\".8p.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$iobt.0:$iobt-0-0.0\">I used to not understand why you&#8217;d stay with someone who lied, wasn&#8217;t responsible and couldn&#8217;t make peace with the past. We stay with those who feel familiar to us. They may not &#8220;be good&#8221; for us, it may not be in our best interest, but they are familiar. <\/span><\/span><\/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\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=You are the only one who determines how long it will go on&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/\" 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\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/\" 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=You%20are%20the%20only%20one%20who%20determines%20how%20long%20it%20will%20go%20on&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-are-the-only-one-who-determines-how-long-it-will-go-on\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a phone session with a long time friend. She&#8217;s once again broken up with her mate over lies and empty promises.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll get a divorce and we&#8217;ll get married&#8221; he tells her, yet he never does. &#8220;How much longer is this going to go on?&#8221; she asked. An elder friend said it [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-39760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760","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=39760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39765,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions\/39765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}