{"id":2041,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/real-man-speaks-telling-my-girlfriend-to-calm-down-works-literally-every-time\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:23","slug":"real-man-speaks-telling-my-girlfriend-to-calm-down-works-literally-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/real-man-speaks-telling-my-girlfriend-to-calm-down-works-literally-every-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Man Speaks: Telling My Girlfriend To Calm Down Works Literally Every Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Lucas Chen\">Lucas Chen<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>April 27, 2015<\/h6>\n<p>Women can be very emotional. I recently read a <i>New York Times<\/i> article that claimed that women&#8217;s emotions are an asset, not a liability. But when it&#8217;s 2 A.M. and my girlfriend is lying on the floor sobbing and wearing sweatpants, that can be hard to believe. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I\u2019ve found the perfect way of dealing with PMS, cramps, headaches, depression, anxiety, insomnia, work stress, and feminism. I just tell my girlfriend to calm down, and she calms right down!<\/p>\n<p>She starts taking these slow deep breaths and moving her hands up and down rhythmically. She sometimes lets out one last small scream. Then, she usually says to me, \u201cYou are <em>so right<\/em>. Instead of being upset, I should just <em>calm down<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>With my girlfriend, there are good days, and there are bad days. To me, it\u2019s totally unpredictable! Who can tell what&#8217;ll set her off\u2014the death of a pet, a flunked test, or just me, platonically complimenting her best friend on the moles on her breasts. But now I have a defense strategy against whatever torrents of tears happen to come my way, totally without warning or cause. <\/p>\n<p>Just tell her to calm down! Trust me, it works literally every time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lucas Chen April 27, 2015 Women can be very emotional. I recently read a New York Times article that claimed that women&#8217;s emotions are an asset, not a liability. But when it&#8217;s 2 A.M. and my girlfriend is lying on the floor sobbing and wearing sweatpants, that can be hard to believe. Fortunately, I\u2019ve found the perfect way of dealing with PMS, cramps, headaches, depression, anxiety, insomnia, work stress, and feminism. I just tell my girlfriend to calm down, and she calms right down! She starts taking these slow deep breaths and moving her hands up and down rhythmically. She sometimes lets out one last small scream. Then, she usually says to me, \u201cYou are so right. Instead of being upset, I should just calm down.\u201d With my girlfriend, there are good days, and there are bad days. To me, it\u2019s totally unpredictable! Who can tell what&#8217;ll set her off\u2014the death of a pet, a flunked test, or just me, platonically complimenting her best friend on the moles on her breasts. But now I have a defense strategy against whatever torrents of tears happen to come my way, totally without warning or cause. Just tell her to calm down! Trust me, it works literally every time.<\/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-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}