{"id":1873,"date":"2010-01-05T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2010-01-05T23:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:31:45","slug":"karen-answers-lisette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Lisette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Lisette on 31 Dec 2009 at 11:42 am<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Happy New Year to you and your family Karen! many blessings, too! Thank you for being who you are and helping you know who how to you know what, survive. Last year this time I promised to end my life this year. 2010 is upon me today and I don\u2019t want to die. I found strength. I no longer feel alone. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Lisette<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Lisette,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>You are very welcome! Thank you for your blessings and kind thoughts! They mean the world to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I&#8217;m so glad to hear that you didn&#8217;t end your life. I&#8217;ve made those kinds of promises to myself, too, and I&#8217;m glad\u00a0I didn&#8217;t\u00a0keep my word. Sometimes when the world doesn&#8217;t seem to be as it should, those of us who suffer can&#8217;t see a light at the end of the tunnel. It was easy for me to want to end my life and give up rather than exhaust myself by healing and learning how to live with dignity after abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I&#8217;m glad you changed your mind. I&#8217;m glad to hear you&#8217;ve found strength. And I am glad you no longer feel alone and have shared with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Wishing you all my best as you\u00a0heal on\u00a0your own journey to wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Lisette on 31 Dec 2009 at 11:42 am Happy New Year to you and your family Karen! many blessings, too! Thank you for being who you are and helping you know who how to you know what, survive. Last year this time I promised to end my life this year. 2010 is upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}