{"id":88,"date":"2007-02-27T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T05:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:18:22","slug":"squinting-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Squinting Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often admired people who can be so open and honest about their love.\u00c2\u00a0 I can think of a few people who inspire me to open my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately its not always as easy as it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 I have defensive triggers that slam the door to feelings of the heart.\u00c2\u00a0 That overwhelming sense of passion and adoration that accompanies a relationship\/friendship when you&#8217;re so thankful of the connection.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, that wonderfully warm and fulfilling feeling often turns cold in me as a sort of defense mechanism to assure my survival&#8230;. survival of what i&#8217;m not sure but i know i mastered this during my childhood and now i can&#8217;t seem to knock it.<\/p>\n<p>I had a dream last night about the love of my life.\u00c2\u00a0 It was an ordinary dream with extraordinary feelings.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt love as i remember it but it stayed with me and didn&#8217;t shut off at random intervals.\u00c2\u00a0 I was overwhelmed with the feelings of gratefulness, appreciation and complete infatuation as i should be.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up knowing what could be&#8230; and now i just have to find out how to get there in my awake state.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00c2\u00a0 are moments when i&#8217;ve had these feelings but they never stay and i haven&#8217;t mastered how to overcome the wall that falls down between me and my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 I just have to keep squinting hoping that someday i&#8217;ll speak the magic words and the wall will shatter away forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often admired people who can be so open and honest about their love.\u00c2\u00a0 I can think of a few people who inspire me to open my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately its not always as easy as it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 I have defensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->