{"id":1174,"date":"2007-03-01T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/relationship-musings.html"},"modified":"2007-03-01T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T10:58:00","slug":"relationship-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/relationship-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/ReazM0BxEJI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/x55rJ_s7Xwc\/s1600-h\/boy+and+girl.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/ReazM0BxEJI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/x55rJ_s7Xwc\/s400\/boy+and+girl.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036910265966334098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sister and I were having a conversation about relationships not too long ago. Romantic relationships interest me a lot, and I suppose that&#8217;s why I write romance fiction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed when women say they have a boyfriend, it&#8217;s hard to really tell how serious the relationship is. The frequency that they see their &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; can range from a few times a year to several times a week! At times, when they say they have a boyfriend, the said &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; does not always reciprocate and claim to have a &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; when asked. Back in my single days, I dated somebody and we saw each other once or twice a week. I&#8217;d just assumed he was my &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; but we&#8217;d never really made a vocal committment to one another. It would be interesting to do a poll of men and women to see if a vocal committment is needed in order to claim to have a boyfriend or girlfriend, or is it just an automatic assumption since the couple sees each other so frequently? <\/p>\n<p>The only terms, as far as relationships go, that seem pretty much mean the same to most people are fianc\u00e9, fianc\u00e9e, husband, and wife. <\/p>\n<p>These are just some interesting thoughts that were running through my brain recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<\/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>My sister and I were having a conversation about relationships not too long ago. Romantic relationships interest me a lot, and I suppose that&#8217;s why I write romance fiction. I&#8217;ve noticed when women say they have a boyfriend, it&#8217;s hard to really tell how serious the relationship is. The frequency that they see their &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; [&hellip;]<!-- 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":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}