{"id":40825,"date":"2013-04-06T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40825"},"modified":"2015-06-01T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T02:22:55","slug":"we-dont-need-a-partner-in-order-to-be-happy-we-just-need-something-that-fulfills-us-and-gives-our-life-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-need-a-partner-in-order-to-be-happy-we-just-need-something-that-fulfills-us-and-gives-our-life-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t need a partner in order to be happy, we just need something that fulfills us and gives our life meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re programmed to think we need a partner in order to be happy. All we need is to be involved in something that gives our life meaning. For some, that is a friend or lover; for some, the camaradie of fellowship. \u00a0For some, it is a sense of mission and purpose; others an artistic expression, hobby or interest. \u00a0I went many years without relationship and nine days before meeting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=22935\">my ex<\/a>\u00a0of 2012, I wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16432\">I\u2019m living happily ever after and did not need a Prince to get me there<\/a>. \u00a0While 2012 was an interesting experiment in living the life of the householder, I learned that is not the most fulfilling life for me. 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All we need is to be involved in something that gives our life meaning. For some, that is a friend or lover; for some, the camaradie of fellowship. \u00a0For some, it is a sense of mission and purpose; others an artistic expression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825","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=40825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40826,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825\/revisions\/40826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}