{"id":13876,"date":"2026-01-30T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:56:17","slug":"levels-of-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=13876","title":{"rendered":"Levels of Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025_122823-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  They don&#8217;t have a lick of shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  I see that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from Keep Your Love On by Danny Silk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This might be news to you, but not everyone should have the same access to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are responsible to manage different levels of intimacy, responsibility, influence, and trust with people in your life.  Likewise, you are responsible to honor the different levels of access and influence others allow you to have in their lives.  These levels are absolutely righteous, healthy, normal, and good.  It is supposed to be like this!  It has to be like this.  When we expect that we should all have equal access to one another, we are setting ourselves up to violate and be violated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,\u00a0Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith:\u00a0<em>so do<\/em>.  1 Timothy 1:3-4 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: They don&#8217;t have a lick of shame. Me: I see that. 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