{"id":1795,"date":"2008-12-07T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2008-12-07T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:46:36","slug":"our-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Our Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I have been together for almost ten years now (married six years) and so we were pondering our relationship on the drive home from his parents&#8217; house this evening.  We were talking about having crushes and having your heart broken so badly that you thought you would die.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how we got into the subject when out of the blue he goes, &#8220;You have to admit, baby, there was a time there when you were really psychotic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I could not, in good conscience, argue with that statement because I knew full well how insane I behaved when we first started dating.  I was so crazy that we actually went to couples counseling <em>before<\/em> we were married.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; I conceded, &#8220;but have you ever stopped to consider that you have that effect on women?&#8221;  After all, I wasn&#8217;t the only neurotic girlfriend he&#8217;d ever had.  As a matter of fact, I think all of his ex-girlfriends have been neurotic in some form or another.  The only thing we all had in common was him.  Therefore, a rational person could only come to one logical conclusion.  Could it be that he is the problem?  LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I think I am the only girlfriend who survived past the psychotic stage.  And that, my friends, is how Brian and I ended up husband and wife.<\/p>\n<p>[ P.S. Remind me to tell you the real story later. ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I have been together for almost ten years now (married six years) and so we were pondering our relationship on the drive home from his parents&#8217; house this evening. We were talking about having crushes and having your heart broken so badly that you thought you would die. I&#8217;m not sure how we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[196,2477,197,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}