{"id":8488,"date":"2014-08-31T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:53","slug":"how-are-your-friendships-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/how-are-your-friendships-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"How are your friendships these days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8489\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"friendship bracelets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">How do you deal with change in your friendships?<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Changes in friendships are \u00a0inevitable, especially <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">as we get older. I went through the wave of changes when my friends <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">started having kids. I never wanted children, but most of my friends <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">did. I saw them less once the kids were born- but now that the kids are <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">getting older, I see these friends more!\u00a0 When friends get into a GOOD <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">relationship, you see them less. It&#8217;s natural.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> When it&#8217;s a BAD relationship, you talk to them more because they want <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">to vent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It can be hard to take if you&#8217;re feeling left out.. because the <\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">person naturally wants to spend time with their new love and simply <\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">can&#8217;t have the same time for you as they had in the past. <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It has happened to me a lot. I miss the time <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">with friends when they get into a relationship or have a baby. And yet when I&#8217;m in a relationship, I spend less time with <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">friends as well.\u00a0 I want to be the kind of friend who moves with change. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I don&#8217;t want to fight change. My brain does. My brain wants everyone to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">be on call for me! HEHE. It&#8217;s hard work to be a good friend.\u00a0 I work on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">it constantly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966; font-size: large;\">How are your friendships?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Julie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-friendship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8491\" alt=\"guy friendship\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-friendship.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-friendship.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-friendship-150x141.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8489\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"friendship bracelets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets.png 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-bracelets-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>How do you deal with change in your friendships? <\/p>\n<p>Changes in friendships are inevitable, especially as we get older. I went through the wave of changes when my friends started having kids. I never wanted children, but most of my friends did. I saw them less once the kids were born- but now that the kids are getting older, I see these friends more! When friends get into a GOOD relationship, you see them less. It&#8217;s natural. When it&#8217;s a BAD relationship, you talk to them more because they want to vent. <\/p>\n<p>It can be hard to take if you&#8217;re feeling left out.. because the person naturally wants to spend time with their new love and simply can&#8217;t have the same time for you as they had in the past. <\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/how-are-your-friendships-these-days\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11257,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}