{"id":282,"date":"2026-07-26T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:17:41","slug":"the-smarter-you-are-the-worse-you-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"The Smarter You Are, the Worse You Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:427,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12304,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/psychologyofrelationships.substack.com\/i\/199275429?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BwZT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be9578d-3bef-4a72-b2ec-e9b17fb37dc0_640x427.heic 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Beautiful. Isolated. Built to fight. Sound familiar?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Smart people say dumb things.<\/p>\n<p>I would know.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said my fair share. When my wife and I started dating, we were sharing a moment. She very sweetly and kindly complimented my blue eyes. (In truth, they\u2019re a very basic blue. But that\u2019s the point, she was being sweet and romantic.) She paused, with an expec\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyofrelationships.substack.com\/p\/the-smarter-you-are-the-worse-you\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful. Isolated. Built to fight. Sound familiar? Smart people say dumb things. I would know. I\u2019ve said my fair share. When my wife and I started dating, we were sharing a moment. She very sweetly and kindly complimented my blue eyes. (In truth, they\u2019re a very basic blue. But that\u2019s the point, she was being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-relationships","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/replyguru.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}