{"id":88,"date":"2025-12-24T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:54:02","slug":"a-day-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"A day before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We just had a call and I wanted to write down my feelings and thoughts.<br>It felt like there was something in the air, pauses between sentences,<br>something wistful. I don&#8217;t remember having had this before. I wonder if<br>everything is OK with you. If there is something I can do for you.<br>Maybe you were just exhausted, these weeks must have<br>been a lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have been distant lately. I wonder what I could do differently to help. Maybe there are a lot of things on your mind. You didn&#8217;t ask me any questions during our call. You seem to have been lost in your thoughts, in what&#8217;s around you. I wish you&#8217;d open up and let me know. Of what&#8217;s bothering you, what&#8217;s weighing on you. I feel like I cannot ask that right now. You need to tell me that yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When talking, you told me about the Christmas market you went to, with the stalls that only had interesting things, and some high-end stalls that had very interesting craftsmen&#8217;s things. It reminded me of us, in Buenos Aires, shopping on the open street, at a market. You being impatient with me. I was probably quite annoying, taking my time looking through things. It was hard, I wanted to be someone you&#8217;d enjoy being with, but ended up further frustrating you. I remember this moment, me hesitating about buying a belt, and you snapping at me, to just buy it. It was a bit surreal, a bit surprising. I wish I could have told you then how much I care for you, how much you mean to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like love is in all these moments. Moments of stress, and moments of care. I always try to think of you gently, kindly. I&#8217;m sorry if it doesn&#8217;t always feel like it. I know you have always forgiven me. In fact, that&#8217;s one of the strangest, most uplifting, most beautiful part of being with you. I love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a call and I wanted to write down my feelings and thoughts.It felt like there was something in the air, pauses between sentences,something wistful. I don&#8217;t remember having had this before. I wonder ifeverything is OK with you. If there is something I can do for you.Maybe you were just exhausted, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.occasionsoflove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}