{"id":45936,"date":"2025-02-15T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45936"},"modified":"2025-02-15T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:39:41","slug":"my-5-year-old-son-started-avoiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45936","title":{"rendered":"My 5-year-old son started avoiding>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-526.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-526.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-526-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert, 32, had a perfect balance between work and family life with his wife Candice and their five-year-old son, Sam. Married for eight years, he worked full-time while Candice stayed home to care for Sam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately, Robert noticed Sam avoiding his mother. Concerned, he asked, \u201cWhy won\u2019t you spend time with Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam hesitated. \u201cShe has a secret. She cries when you\u2019re at work. I saw her hide a picture in a green box under her bed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious, Robert searched and found a picture of a happy family. His heart pounded\u2014the man in the photo resembled Candice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho is he?\u201d Robert confronted her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tears filled her eyes. \u201cHe\u2019s my twin brother. My mother had an affair. When we were born, she and her lover each took a child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert was stunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI never met my real father,\u201d Candice whispered. \u201cI want to know my brother, but it would break my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert hugged her. \u201cWhatever you choose, I\u2019ll support you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candice remained torn\u2014should she embrace her past or protect the life she knew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45861\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert, 32, had a perfect balance between work and family life with his wife Candice and their five-year-old son, Sam. Married for eight years, he worked full-time&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45938,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45936\/revisions\/45938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}