{"id":2918,"date":"2010-10-05T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/what-love-is\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:10:27","slug":"what-love-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/what-love-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What Love Is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This is a great quote to ponder…<\/p>\n

\n

“Love isn’t just about feeling good. It’s about doing what you don’t want to do over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self sacrifice.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Meg Meeker, M.D., from the book “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters”.<\/a> <\/p>\n


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This is a great quote to ponder… “Love isn’t just about feeling good. It’s about doing what you don’t want to do over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self sacrifice.” – Meg Meeker, M.D., from the book “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-L4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2906,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/new-book-strong-fathers-strong-daughters-10-secrets-every-father-should-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":2918,"position":0},"title":"New Book: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"September 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This book was recommended to me by my good friend Craig who has a daughter that's around 4 years old. 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