{"id":62672,"date":"2025-06-04T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62672"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:54:03","slug":"the-husband-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62672","title":{"rendered":"The husband went"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"922\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-139.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-139.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-139-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sasha packed his swimsuit for a beach vacation while sending his six-months-pregnant wife, Lika, to his mother\u2019s village \u2014 to work in the vegetable garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLika, I need a break too,\u201d he shrugged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I don\u2019t?\u201d she asked. \u201cI\u2019m pregnant, not useless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He didn\u2019t budge. He never did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the village, Lika\u2019s mother-in-law handed her a shovel. \u201cBet you wore him out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lika stayed silent. The sun was brutal, the labor relentless. She dug with aching limbs, whispering to her unborn child, \u201cJust hang in there, baby\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She overheard the gossip: \u201cShe\u2019s lazy. We used to give birth in fields!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Sasha returned, tanned and glowing, he kissed her cheek and bragged about cocktails and shrimp. Lika cut him off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He laughed. \u201cDon\u2019t be dramatic. You need me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ll find out if I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She left. Slept peacefully at Oksana\u2019s. For the first time, she felt free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sasha begged. Called. \u201cFor the baby,\u201d he pleaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She replied, \u201cDo you miss me\u2014or just hate being alone?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, holding her newborn, Lika smiled. Sasha came back with gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can see your son,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I am no longer yours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62663\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasha packed his swimsuit for a beach vacation while sending his six-months-pregnant wife, Lika, to his mother\u2019s village \u2014 to work in the vegetable garden. \u201cLika, I&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62673,"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\/62672"}],"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=62672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62674,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672\/revisions\/62674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}