{"id":16110,"date":"2009-06-30T00:33:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2009-06-30T05:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T10:43:01","slug":"compersion-love-as-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/compersion-love-as-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Compersion: Love as Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Compersion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/trt\/images\/vdayhoro08.jpg?resize=182%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"120\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are good reasons compersion feels like such a radical idea; why for example feeling good about your partner\u0432\u0402\u2122s relationship with someone else feels so different. To most, the notion seems unconscionable. There are the ordinary ones: we \u0432\u0402?don\u0432\u0402\u2122t want to think about that kind of thing\u0432\u0402\u2122 or we equate monogamy (or the appearance of monogamy) with loyalty. That loyalty is the razor\u0432\u0402\u2122s edge between being \u0432\u0402?with someone\u0432\u0402\u2122 and \u0432\u0402?being alone\u0432\u0402\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u0432\u0402\u2122s say you\u0432\u0402\u2122re willing to go past the primal fear; you\u0432\u0402\u2122re willing to think about it, even willing to feel it, and it starts to make sense that <em>your partner is free<\/em> and part of that freedom is opening the space inside yourself and in the relationship for them to have any experience they want. Let\u0432\u0402\u2122s say you figure out that logic leaves you no choice.<\/p>\n<p>What is so loving about attempting to define, limit or control the emotions or experiences of another person? Nothing at all; we just call it love to make it sound nice. Not all monogamous relationships have this as their basis, but we tend to see and experience this dynamic pretty frequently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookofblue.com\/book-of-blue.html\"><strong>Continue reading at Book of Blue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are good reasons compersion feels like such a radical idea; why for example feeling good about your partner\u0432\u0402\u2122s relationship with someone else feels so different. To most, the notion seems unconscionable. There are the ordinary ones: we \u0432\u0402?don\u0432\u0402\u2122t want to think about that kind of thing\u0432\u0402\u2122 or we equate monogamy (or the appearance of &#8230; <a title=\"Compersion: Love as Space\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/compersion-love-as-space\/\" aria-label=\"More on Compersion: Love as Space\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}