{"id":323,"date":"2007-06-18T04:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2007-06-18T04:20:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T04:20:29","slug":"i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"I Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">How many times have you heard this before&#8230;I told you so!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had lunch with a good friend today.<span>  <\/span>He has a daughter in her 20\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and she often makes decisions on the spur of the moment without thinking things out thoroughly&#8230;sometimes she talks with her father first&#8230;sometimes she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk with him at all until she runs into a problem with her decision.<span>  <\/span>As much as he tries not to say it the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told you so\u00e2\u20ac\u009d come out of his mouth.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I think we all can certainly<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Keith Urban sings a song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>I Told You So<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>  <\/span>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the trivialities of relationships that can so quickly turn into something that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grows so foolishly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>  <\/span>Then, people can leave in anger just to cool down later, realizing that one wants to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sorry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the other has to bite their tongue to keep from saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told you so.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>  <\/span>Keith sings that they realize \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that for better or worse we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Relationships can be full of stress, can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they?<span>  <\/span>Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better not to be together at all&#8230;but most often it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a little bump in the road that, if handled right, can help a relationship grow stronger.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had my fair share of those&#8230;bumps in the road&#8230;.that is.<span>  <\/span>Actually, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that in all cases, they were just that&#8230;and taking care of the bumps did help develop stronger relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you embrace differences and deal with them respectfully with each other.<span>  <\/span>The better you are at dealing with them, the stronger your relationship can be.<span>  <\/span>Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told you so!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you heard this before&#8230;I told you so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,4,3,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-relationships-marriage","category-relationships-singles","category-releationships-general","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}