{"id":8635,"date":"2024-02-01T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2024-02-01T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:32:06","slug":"8635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2024\/02\/8635","title":{"rendered":"Relationships: The Six Stages of \u201cUS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Foreplay.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s honestly beautiful given how easy it makes things. The excitement associated with the unknown in the sense of meeting a person for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climax.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You both have peaked. Secrets have been shared, common interests have been explored and trust has been established. You both are at the proverbial &#8220;bottom pot&#8221;. The sweetest part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refraction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing left to share or exchange. You&#8217;ve been upfront with each other enough to know what could come next. It&#8217;s boring because the interaction has become routine. Relationship\u00a0<em>post-nut clarity\u00a0<\/em>is introduced. You no longer need to impress or be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abandonment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You either leave or are left depending on who is more vested in the thrill of novel relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Continuance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You stay and embrace the bittersweetness of the journey, one that includes patience, perseverance, and mutual compromise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheating.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You reduce your commitment, leveraging on pre-established privilege to obtain forgiveness if in any case, the other party begins to consider abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreplay.\u00a0 It&#8217;s honestly beautiful given how easy it makes things. The excitement associated with the unknown in the sense of meeting a person for the first time. &nbsp; Climax.\u00a0 You both have peaked. Secrets have been shared, common interests have been explored and trust has been established. You both are at the proverbial &#8220;bottom pot&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8638,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions\/8638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}