{"id":9845,"date":"2018-04-09T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:48:08","slug":"the-healing-power-of-love-at-least-if-youre-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9845","title":{"rendered":"The Healing Power Of Love&#8230;At Least If You&#8217;re Gay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes across my Google news feed today&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/soloish\/wp\/2018\/04\/09\/how-romance-can-protect-gay-and-lesbian-youth-from-emotional-distress\">How romance can protect gay and lesbian youths from emotional distress<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0recent study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology\u00a0finds that being in a\u00a0romantic relationship can help\u00a0gay and lesbian youth like Pegues feel less mental distress \u2014 even\u00a0more so if they are black or Latino. This contrasts with the fact that, in heterosexual teens\u2019 lives, romance is\u00a0generally found to cause distress\u00a0rather than alleviate it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact the study seems to suggest that being in a romantic relationship causes stress for Everyone but gay folk. I&#8217;ve no idea why that would be so, unless it&#8217;s we have to work harder for it and cherish it more because so many people want to take it away from us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.<\/em> -Lao Tzu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes across my Google news feed today&#8230; How romance can protect gay and lesbian youths from emotional distress A\u00a0recent study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology\u00a0finds that being in a\u00a0romantic relationship can help\u00a0gay and lesbian youth like Pegues feel less mental distress \u2014 even\u00a0more so if they are black or Latino. This contrasts with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[223,103],"class_list":["post-9845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gay-love-and-romance","tag-the-human-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}