{"id":1177,"date":"2016-07-08T02:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2023-11-20T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:00:54","slug":"is-virtual-love-better-than-real-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/is-virtual-love-better-than-real-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Virtual Love Better Than Real Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Texting.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1212\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1212\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Texting.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Girl texting on a mobile phone\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Texting.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Texting.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all text. We text at home, when we are out with friends, at work&#8230;it&#8217;s quickly becoming our number one way of communicating with the people that we are closest with. But what are the consequences to our love lives? It&#8217;s not just a problem for teenagers anymore. It&#8217;s not ingrained in our culture, and at what point, do we stop and reflect on how we are engaging with our significant others in this new medium?<\/p>\n<p>Text allows us to be who we want to be, to engage on a clear, fast paced and deep level very quickly with those we are in a relationship, but what about dinner, dancing, or seeing a movie? Where has the touching, talking, nervousness and real communication gone? Has our love of texting replaced traditional dating, and even more worrisome, is it keeping us from having a real, true and honest relationship, face to face?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/inviting-monkey-tea\/201606\/is-virtual-love-sexier-real-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is Virtual Love Better Than Real Love?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all text. We text at home, when we are out with friends, at work&#8230;it&#8217;s quickly becoming our number one way of communicating with the people that we are closest with. But what are the consequences to our love lives? It&#8217;s not just a problem for teenagers anymore. It&#8217;s not ingrained in our culture, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[521],"class_list":{"0":"post-1177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships-2","8":"tag-virtual-love-better-than-real-love","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}