{"id":9366,"date":"2020-12-09T01:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2020-12-02T01:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:30:16","slug":"relationship-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=9366","title":{"rendered":"Relationship Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Happy people together in the park\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?w=1470&amp;ssl=1 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One thing that the global pandemic and confinement conditions have driven home is the importance of our relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologists point out that when people have their health and even financial success, they aren\u2019t happy without supportive relationships.<\/p>\n<p>These can come from family, friends, and even pets. Such social connections turn out to be vitally important for our mental and physical well-being.<\/p>\n<p>So find the people you enjoy being with and spend some time just chatting or sharing a meal. This contact truly matters for our long term mental and physical well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that the global pandemic and confinement conditions have driven home is the importance of our relationships. Psychologists point out that when people have their health and even financial &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9367,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Friends-lined-up-arm-in-arm.jpg?fit=2120%2C1415&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-2r4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12936,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=12936","url_meta":{"origin":9366,"position":0},"title":"Spring Cleaning","author":"Will Clower","date":"February 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"How you think matters. 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