# Belongs to relationship nulls out belongs to id on save

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/belongs-to-relationship-nulls-out-belongs-to-id-on-save/7281>\
**Category:** Ember Data\
**Created:** [February 10, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/belongs-to-relationship-nulls-out-belongs-to-id-on-save/7281 "2015-02-10T03:23:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/belongs-to-relationship-nulls-out-belongs-to-id-on-save/7281/4 "2015-02-10T20:07:36Z")

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In case anyone else thinks of monkey patching this to work BEWARE it causes the loading of the belongs to record to get mucked up [Recursive Sideloading](http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/recursive-sideloading/7283)

I really do wish I knew the correct way to accomplish this task. My current solution is to create a new record with just the ID on it and store that but it seems pretty wrong, not to mention it will probably break something else later.

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