{"id":9999,"date":"2019-09-23T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:39:16","slug":"every-practicing-catholic-girls-question-what-should-you-do-if-you-fall-in-love-with-your-guy-friend-who-is-discerning-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/23\/every-practicing-catholic-girls-question-what-should-you-do-if-you-fall-in-love-with-your-guy-friend-who-is-discerning-priesthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Every practicing Catholic girl&#8217;s question: what should you do if you fall in love with your guy friend who is discerning priesthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw092319-3.jpg\" alt=\"Every practicing Catholic girl's question: what should you do if you fall in love with your guy friend who is discerning priesthood? (Thank you for answering :)\" class=\"wp-image-9993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw092319-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw092319-3-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Every practicing Catholic girl&#8217;s question: what should you do if you fall in love with your guy friend who is discerning priesthood? (Thank you for answering \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tell him. Friendship is about honesty; if you don&#8217;t, your friendship will suffer. But it&#8217;s possible he&#8217;s quite committed, so be prepared for disappointment. And in case of disappointment, be prepared to help return your friendship to an even keel, because telling him shouldn&#8217;t mean the end of a friendship. (Also: better that his resolve be tested now than after he goes through all the work to become a priest!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell him. Friendship is about honesty; if you don&#8217;t, your friendship will suffer. But it&#8217;s possible he&#8217;s quite committed, so be prepared for disappointment. And in case of disappointment, be prepared to help return your friendship to an even keel, because telling him shouldn&#8217;t mean the end of a friendship. (Also: better that his resolve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/23\/every-practicing-catholic-girls-question-what-should-you-do-if-you-fall-in-love-with-your-guy-friend-who-is-discerning-priesthood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every practicing Catholic girl&#8217;s question: what should you do if you fall in love with your guy friend who is discerning priesthood?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}