{"id":69339,"date":"2025-07-26T02:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69339"},"modified":"2025-07-26T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:39:39","slug":"my-mom-refused-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69339","title":{"rendered":"MY MOM REFUSED"},"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\/07\/image-102.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-102.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-102-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She looked down at her tea, like it held the answers.<br>\u201cYou don\u2019t understand,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI spent 30 years putting everyone first\u2014your dad, you kids, the house. I don\u2019t regret it, but somewhere along the way\u2026 I lost myself. Now that I\u2019ve finally got my time back, I\u2019m not giving it up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then she looked at me with the same tired eyes I remembered from my teenage years.<br>\u201cI love you. I love your son. But love doesn\u2019t mean I owe you my time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For days, I spiraled. My partner, Arel, tried to stay positive\u2014he even picked up extra shifts at the auto shop\u2014but no matter how we crunched the numbers, things weren\u2019t adding up. I was panicking about money, trying to sell old baby gear, and calculating how far our savings would stretch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69322\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She looked down at her tea, like it held the answers.\u201cYou don\u2019t understand,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI spent 30 years putting everyone first\u2014your dad, you kids, the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69340,"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\/69339"}],"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=69339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69341,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339\/revisions\/69341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}