{"id":2037,"date":"2025-04-25T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-single-sentence-can-be-the-death-knell-of-a-relationship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:33:04","slug":"a-single-sentence-can-be-the-death-knell-of-a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-single-sentence-can-be-the-death-knell-of-a-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Single Sentence Can Be the Death Knell of a Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you are more tolerant<br>\nand forgiving than I am<br>\nWhen it comes to insulting words<br>\nby someone you love, words that<br>\nsometimes can be the death knell<br>\nof a romantic relationship<br>\nor even a marriage.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been one to suffer abuse,<br>\nSuffered too much of it in my youth,<br>\nWhich served me well later in life<br>\nWhen others tried to walk on me.<\/p>\n<p>I once had a wife, who disrespectfully<br>\nand undeservedly, said to me,<br>\n\u201cUse your fucking head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to her at that time,<br>\ndespite my reacting angrily to her<br>\nundeserved, disrespectful words,<br>\nthat sentence was the death knell of<br>\nour dying marriage that was<br>\non life support during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Though I was disappointed in her<br>\nfor valid reasons, never would<br>\nI have talked to her so disrespectfully.<\/p>\n<p>And with that single use your fucking head<br>\nsentence she lost my love and the<br>\nmarriage forever.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you are more tolerant and forgiving than I am When it comes to insulting words by someone you love, words that sometimes can be the death knell of a romantic relationship or even a marriage. I\u2019ve never been one to suffer abuse, Suffered too much of it in my youth, Which served me well&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-single-sentence-can-be-the-death-knell-of-a-relationship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}