{"id":209,"date":"2007-07-23T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T07:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/23\/the-games-people-play\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T07:21:54","slug":"the-games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"The games people (including me) play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people find it so hard to just be real?  The mindgames they play &#8211; especially with those who love them &#8211; in order to avoid dealing with the real stuff relationships are made of is very sad.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of just telling me straight up &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready to talk with you about us&#8221;, they go on about stuff as if nothing&#8217;s happened between us.  And that feels very hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s see &#8211; what does anger hide?  Hurt.  Yes &#8211; when I respond in anger &#8211; it is because I am feeling hurt.<\/p>\n<p>So the Lesson here is quite simple.   My &#8216;game&#8217; is avoiding my hurt by expressing my anger.  I can&#8217;t speak for anyone else&#8217;s game.  But mine is once again &#8211; crystal clear.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson Learned &#8211; at least for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people find it so hard to just be real? The mindgames they play &#8211; especially with those who love them &#8211; in order to avoid dealing with the real stuff relationships are made of is very sad. Instead <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=209\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-209","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\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}