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Raising three kids between two marriages and one broken autonomic nervous system is an endless all you can eat heart break buffet.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that the rollercoaster only free falls, there are plenty of magic moments as well as dry spells.\u00a0 But when love is in the air, you had better hold on to your senses because there is no telling what you may find when the dust settles.<\/p>\n
The dating game was decidedly different when I was shadow dancing<\/a> in the seventies.\u00a0 Discretion was a turtleneck sweater hiding the kiss you all over<\/em><\/a> to avoid exile.\u00a0 As my girlfriend said, I’m sure glad there weren’t picture phones when I was growing up!<\/p>\n While my Mom use to check my room for signs of cigarette smoking, I now check my adolescents’ cell phones for smoking guns!\u00a0 DELETE.\u00a0 DELETE. DELETE.\u00a0 Really? DELETE. DELETE. DELETE. GROUNDED.<\/em><\/strong> DELETE. DELETE. DELETE.\u00a0 What was I thinking when I got free MotoZine<\/a> 5 megapixel camera phones for all my children?<\/p>\n Then there is my college girl, where everything is a Facebook headline.\u00a0 How do you mend a <\/3 <\/a>?\u00a0 Damned if I know, but ask one of your 356 closest social networking pals and you are bound to find someone to pick up the pieces.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Raising three kids between two marriages and one broken autonomic nervous system is an endless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chissa","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}