{"id":110,"date":"2006-02-14T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/14\/soul-mate-page-2\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T14:25:00","slug":"soul-mate-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Soul Mate &#8211; page 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many confuse sexual attraction, or emotional infatuation with falling in Love.  I&apos;ve done this too.  It can be difficult when hormones are raging.<\/p>\n<p>I&apos;ve known many who use sexual attraction as a means to an end &#8211; mainly women fall into this category.  &#8220;I can snare him into falling in love with me if I&apos;m sexually assertive and fulfill all his wildest desires.&#8221;  Or something to that affect.<\/p>\n<p>For quite a few men, sex is the end itself.  And I don&apos;t say this to bash men &#8211; it&apos;s just an observation.<\/p>\n<p>In thinking about real Love and what it means to be a Soul Mate, there&apos;s always going to be the initial feeling of &apos;falling in love&apos; but ultimately, the authentic relationship is so much more.<\/p>\n<p>There&apos;s an extraordinary emotional and deeply spiritual connection that can not be created or imitated.  It is as if the other&apos;s happiness is more important than your own.  There&apos;s an authentic need to give &#8211; without expecting anything in return.  And when your Soul Mate is growing to their utmost &#8211; it is as if you are too!  It&apos;s very hard to describe.<\/p>\n<p>A Soul Mate will inspire you&#8230;&#8230;..  will always leave you feeling like an extraordinary human being&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Can there be more than one?  Of course!<\/p>\n<p>To have that experience in this life where I can truly say that he was my Soul Mate &#8211; that is my desire.  And I won&apos;t settle for anything less &#8211; ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many confuse sexual attraction, or emotional infatuation with falling in Love. I&apos;ve done this too. It can be difficult when hormones are raging. I&apos;ve known many who use sexual attraction as a means to an end &#8211; mainly women <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=110\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}