{"id":3393,"date":"2006-10-28T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:30:02","slug":"the-midwestern-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/the-midwestern-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midwestern Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story in yesterday&#8217;s <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> (sorry, no link) entitled &#8220;&#8216;Honey, I&#8217;m Thinking of Having an Affair&#8217;: Therapists Advise Confessing Temptation&#8221;, we get a sidebar advising how to &#8220;Affair-Proofing A Marriage&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To guard against damage from affairs, experts suggest couples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acknowledge the risk of an <b>affair occurring<\/b>\n<li>Discuss circumstances that might pose <b>a risk<\/b>\n<li>Agree to talk about <b>temptations<\/b> before acting\n<li>Disclose any <b>affairs<\/b> promptly\n<li>Agree not to <b>counterattack<\/b> if a spouse strays\n<li>Learn to ask, give and receive <b>forgiveness<\/b><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These sentiments and the bolding itself might embolden Manhattanites to stray and to talk about it with their therapists and therapist-talking, possibly cheating spouses.  However, here in the Midwest, in circumstances where loving your spouse or remaining faithful out of moral obligation don&#8217;t hold enough power, the following single tip can help to affair proof the marriage without the mumbo-jumbo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember, <b>your spouse knows<\/b> where your family keeps the guns, knives, hammers, baseball bats, and other Improvised Blunt Traumatizers (IBTs), and you have to sleep sometime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal (sorry, no link) entitled &#8220;&#8216;Honey, I&#8217;m Thinking of Having an Affair&#8217;: Therapists Advise Confessing Temptation&#8221;, we get a sidebar advising how to &#8220;Affair-Proofing A Marriage&#8221;: To guard against damage from affairs, experts suggest couples: Acknowledge the risk of an affair occurring Discuss circumstances that might pose a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18488,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/18488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}