{"id":69525,"date":"2025-07-28T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69525"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:11:15","slug":"i-found-a-hoodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69525","title":{"rendered":"I Found A Hoodie\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-152.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-152.png 378w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-152-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was folding laundry when I found a tiny hoodie that wasn\u2019t my son\u2019s. My husband brushed it off\u2014\u201cmust\u2019ve come from daycare.\u201d But something felt off. That night, I checked the daycare\u2019s photo app. In the background of a birthday picture, I saw him\u2014my husband\u2014crouched beside a curly-haired toddler in a pink bow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, our son drew two stick figures. \u201cThat\u2019s Daddy and Rosie,\u201d he said. \u201cMy sister.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We only have one child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked the daycare staff. Rosie existed. Her \u201csuper involved\u201d dad? Mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahra, my sister, helped me dig. We found Brielle\u2014Rosie\u2019s mother. A tagged post read: \u201cRosie finally met her daddy \ud83d\udc95.\u201d Dated one month before his \u201cold friend\u201d reappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I met Brielle. She was kind, strong, blindsided too. My husband had hidden a whole daughter from me. From us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I confronted him, he cried. But I was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We separated. For our son, I kept things peaceful. Over time, Brielle and I became allies\u2014for our children, for our healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I didn\u2019t get the life I planned. But I found peace, strength, and something quietly beautiful on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69485\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was folding laundry when I found a tiny hoodie that wasn\u2019t my son\u2019s. My husband brushed it off\u2014\u201cmust\u2019ve come from daycare.\u201d But something felt off. That&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69526,"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\/69525"}],"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=69525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69527,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69525\/revisions\/69527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}