{"id":82,"date":"2004-03-23T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2004-03-23T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T09:53:00","slug":"my-flat-cresta-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-flat-cresta-9\/","title":{"rendered":"My Flat, Cresta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Tuesday, March 23, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: *<br \/>\n<br \/>Food:       *<br \/>\n<br \/>Ambience: *<br \/>\n<br \/>Babe Count: N\/A<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mysite.mweb.co.za\/residents\/rb000004\/Sheepy.jpg?resize=220%2C165\" alt=\"Sheepy used to keep Jacqui and me company on hot nights. She's seen a good few bits of anatomy, and she knows just how amazing our sex life has been. Sheepy misses Jacqui, and you'll notice how tear-stained her ears are.\" style=\"float: right;\" border=\"2\" height=\"165\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"220\" \/>I&#8217;m tear soaked and sapped right now. Just came home from couples therapy. I had decided that I couldn&#8217;t take more of this space, and handed Jacqui all of her things before the session started. We&#8217;ll be seeing each other one more time for her to hand me my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering if there&#8217;s anything I could have done differently. And I&#8217;ll certainly be exploring this with my therapist in the months to come. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, supper is a handful of stale CHEEZ NAKS. They&#8217;re on the other side of the flat, and I can&#8217;t really be bothered to get up and get them. My car&#8217;s parked outside. I had intended to come upstairs, grab my gym stuff, and head out for a vigorous workout. But I&#8217;m gutted.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what this is all about. I&#8217;ve spent all of my adult life learning how to be a better person. I&#8217;ve spent tons of time in therapy learning about myself. I&#8217;m normally a pretty astute judge of human nature. So what makes it so difficult to stay in a beautiful relationship? (And from what I&#8217;ve gleaned in couples therapy, Jacqui also found it beautiful.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I&#8217;m going to be very sore for a while. And Jacqui is too. And I wish we were able to reach out and comfort each other. And be with each other. She said in therapy today that she thinks it may very well have been a factor of timing for her. Maybe we started our journey together a little too early.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is soppy, but at the end of the session, I told her that I would like her to know that the door is open, and that maybe we&#8217;re both incredibly reactive right now, and that maybe given time, some possibility might open up.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. I think I&#8217;d best go and watch some soppy movie.       Even popcorn is better than stale CHEEZ NAKS.<\/p>\n<p>And who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll       meet the new love of my life in the cinema?       <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Service: * Food: * Ambience: * Babe Count: N\/A I&#8217;m tear soaked and sapped right now. Just came home from couples therapy. I had decided that I couldn&#8217;t take more of this space, and handed Jacqui &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-flat-cresta-9\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Flat, Cresta<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-1k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}