{"id":159,"date":"2025-09-04T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:07:17","slug":"only-actions-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/only-actions-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Actions Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I once had a girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told her, \u201cYou\u2019re wonderful.\u201d She replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d I told her, \u201cI want to spend the rest of my life with you.\u201d She replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d I told her, \u201cI love you,\u201d and she replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved her deeply. I tried to fulfill her wishes, treated her gently, comforted her when she was sad, celebrated with her when she was happy, and helped her when she needed it. In bed, I always waited for her to finish first. And every single night, I\u2019d tell her she was the most important person in my life, that I loved her more than anyone ever\u2014and still she replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until one day I told her, \u201cYou know\u2026 your ass has gotten pretty wide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-contrast-3-color\"><strong><em>Get NordVPN 75% off + 3 extra months, and stay anonymous &amp; safe. 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I told her, \u201cYou\u2019re wonderful.\u201d She replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d I told her, \u201cI want to spend the rest of my life with you.\u201d She replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d I told her, \u201cI love you,\u201d and she replied, \u201cWords don\u2019t matter\u2014only actions do.\u201d I loved her &#8230; <a title=\"Only Actions Matter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/only-actions-matter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Only Actions Matter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}