{"id":223,"date":"2012-07-16T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cosmiccandor\/?p=223"},"modified":"2012-07-13T21:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T21:32:57","slug":"keep-smiling-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cosmiccandor\/2012\/07\/keep-smiling-lovers.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Smiling, Lovers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.tarot.com\/articles\/astrology\/mercury-retrograde-love-tips\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-224\" title=\"couple-staring-165x165\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/329\/2012\/07\/couple-staring-165x165.jpg\" alt=\"Get Love Tips for Mercury Retrograde from Tarot.com\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a> Love is complicated enough without Mercury Retrograde adding to the confusion, darn it. I mean, like we really need more miscommunication when it comes to matters of the heart, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, get ready for it, because Mercury Retrograde is here, and I already had a disagreement with my boyfriend in the first five minutes. (He was wrong, by the way. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>MRx messes with communication, technology and travel, so I can think of some of the obvious things that could cause lovers quarrels during Mercury Retrograde.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you text your sweetie and they don&#8217;t text you back. But really it&#8217;s because they never got the text. And same goes for e-mail. Text messages and e-mails often misfire during this time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also possible you&#8217;ll say something as a joke that is misunderstood and taken as an insult, which oddly enough is exactly what caused the argument I just had with my own boyfriend. See, this stuff is for real!<\/p>\n<p>Check out this sweet list of MRx love tips so you&#8217;ll know what to do and what NOT to do to keep smiling and keep your relationship on track in the next few weeks. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Get Love Tips for Mercury Retrograde from Tarot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/beta.tarot.com\/articles\/astrology\/mercury-retrograde-love-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Get more Love Tips for Mercury Retrograde at Tarot.com \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is complicated enough without Mercury Retrograde adding to the confusion, darn it. I mean, like we really need more miscommunication when it comes to matters of the heart, right? Well, get ready for it, because Mercury Retrograde is here, and I already had a disagreement with my boyfriend in the first five minutes. (He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[20,32,19,195,55,146,21,28],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology","category-love","tag-dating","tag-karen-kay","tag-love-2","tag-love-advice","tag-mercury","tag-mercury-retrograde","tag-relationships","tag-tarot-com"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Keep Smiling, Lovers! - Cosmic Candor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cosmiccandor\/2012\/07\/keep-smiling-lovers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep Smiling, Lovers! - Cosmic Candor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Love is complicated enough without Mercury Retrograde adding to the confusion, darn it. 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