{"id":272,"date":"2012-04-20T12:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-09-06T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:08:06","slug":"is-it-hard-to-find-someone-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/is-it-hard-to-find-someone-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Hard To Find Someone Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The English poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island, sufficient unto himself.” There are those who appear\u00a0to be completely self-sufficient but\u00a0these self-sufficient types\u00a0are mostly\u00a0out of touch with their own needs, desires, and feelings. Everyone needs someone. Thus begins the search\u00a0for a “soul mate” or “someone I can share my life with.” However\u00a0even with so many ways to meet people\u00a0the one overriding complaint is\u00a0the unpredictability of the process<\/strong>\u00a0in the quest for love<\/strong>. There don’t seem to be any ground rules, no set patterns, and thus no clear sequence of steps to take. This\u00a0can lead to a lot of confusion and anxiety. It would seem that our culture and society\u00a0is simply “making up” the courtship dance. Without rules, people stumble, so it is not surprising that people grab at anything that will keep them on their feet. One of the serious\u00a0problems with\u00a0Internet matchmaking is that even\u00a0though a person may list all of the\u00a0features they desire in a person, does that mean you will “catch” the person you have cast your net for? After all, the Internet provides a very large “pond” in which to cast a net. Yet there are clearly mixed results and dissatisfaction that can result from reliance on this approach. One of the main reasons people don’t find what they want is that the vision in\u00a0their mind of the ideal mate may not\u00a0translate into reality. Very often people will post\u00a0information on the Internet that is not truthful only to make themselves look better than they really are. Some potential partners present themselves in ways that can only be called “wishful thinking.” Being intrigued by a personality as it takes shape on a computer\u00a0screen, a so-called\u00a0“digital personality”, is taking a risk that may even complicate the task of finding a “soul mate.” If you or someone you know may need counseling, please contact Lamar Hunt Jr. or see his website at http:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island, sufficient unto himself.” There are those who appear\u00a0to be completely self-sufficient but\u00a0these self-sufficient types\u00a0are mostly\u00a0out of touch with their own needs, desires, and feelings. Everyone needs someone. Thus begins … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[19,20,10,11,14,17,23,24,63,88,44,40,41,28,9,6,7,8,38,39,12,13,37,27,49,50,29,36,81,26,69,70,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}