{"id":2012,"date":"2010-05-10T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2010-05-10T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:15:21","slug":"there-were-oh-so-many-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"There were oh so many roads&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/16\/22916544_402ec1760e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a saying, &#8220;An ex is an ex for a reason.&#8221;\u00a0 sometimes we forget that saying when we forget why we ended a relationship in the first place.<br \/>\nI am well aware of why I ended certain relationships&#8230;I know why ones were ended with me.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve made the mistake of getting back with someone that I or he broke up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s usually within a week that I am reminded of why we broke up. It&#8217;s the &#8220;Ahhhh-yeahhhhh.&#8221; moment.<br \/>\nCrash Test Dummy advice 101: Do not get back with an ex.<\/p>\n<p>There is a question in the &#8220;Table Top Questions&#8221; I ordered offline that asks if I would ever get back together with an ex.\u00a0 My response is, &#8220;NEVER.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen answering this question a follow up question was asked, &#8220;Even if were for the kids?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Never. Not even for the kids.&#8221;\u00a0 My kids know I am happy and there are new adventures ahead of us.<br \/>\nAfter that question was answered, another question was asked, &#8220;ANY EX?&#8221;<br \/>\nI had to Rolodex through the boyfriends I have had in the past and stop at each one and fast forward to those last days.<br \/>\n&#8220;When I am with someone I don&#8217;t see myself with anyone else. I have blinders on.\u00a0 I am in a relationship and I don&#8217;t see myself with anyone else. He is the world to me.&#8221; \u00a0 was my inadequate response.<br \/>\nI should have known there would be alterations to the question.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you weren&#8217;t with someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a point in my life when I was truly broken and someone was there to pick up those pieces for me and help me heal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;just one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think we all have a &#8216;just one&#8217; in life.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s the person that made us feel beautiful and whole again&#8230;for some people it&#8217;s the one that got away.\u00a0 Sometimes is someone we did wrong and wish we could go back and make it better.\u00a0 Maybe all three.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s just feeling young and stupid when sometimes &#8216;young and stupid&#8217; feels better than where we are at that point in life.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remember the beautiful places I have been and all the wonderful adventures I will go on and know that I made all the right choices that got me to this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying, &#8220;An ex is an ex for a reason.&#8221;\u00a0 sometimes we forget that saying when we forget why we ended a relationship in the first place. I am well aware of why I ended certain relationships&#8230;I know why ones were ended with me. I&#8217;ve made the mistake of getting back with someone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}