{"id":260,"date":"2009-05-22T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/?p=260"},"modified":"2009-05-22T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:49:00","slug":"hows-your-tank-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s Your Tank Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been talking with many couples over the past several weeks.  Many of the stories I hear are similar.  Their tanks are empty and their feelings have changed.  They are hurting, frustrated and tired.  When your &#8220;love&#8221; tank is empty, the small things bother you and hurt you even more.  If you are in a relationship, what are you doing to fill the other person&#8217;s tank?  Have you been siphoning off or filling up their tank?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe your tank is empty and you have no interest in filling the other person&#8217;s tank.  On your own that will be hard, but ask God to help you take the first step in pouring something into their tank.  Odds are they are running on empty as well.  If you take the initiative the other person is much more likely to start filling your tank.<\/p>\n<p>Now you need to know what fills their tank.  Water will not run a car, it takes gasoline.  You need to find out what their gasoline is and then pump it every day.  Don&#8217;t wait on the other person start today &#8211; even a drop is better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been talking with many couples over the past several weeks. Many of the stories I hear are similar. Their tanks are empty and their feelings have changed. They are hurting, frustrated and tired. When your &#8220;love&#8221; tank is empty, the small things bother you and hurt you even more. If you are in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How&#8217;s Your Tank Level&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}