{"id":70840,"date":"2025-08-07T04:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70840"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:17:22","slug":"two-parents-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70840","title":{"rendered":"Two Parents Who"},"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\/08\/image-209.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-209.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-209-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Family is intended to be a haven, a place of warmth and comfort where we can feel protected and supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what happens when the ones we go upon for stability\u2014our parents\u2014become the cause of confusion and tension?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this book, we look at real-life instances of parents whose actions transformed their children\u2019s lives into something out of a dramatic soap opera.<br>Story 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother left us when I was 12. 25 years later, she suddenly reappeared, begging to meet my 16 y.o. daughter. My child agreed, even though I said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t! She will use you!\u2019\u2019<br>2 years later, my mother di:e:d, and my daughter got a call from an unknown number. Her face turned pale when<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>she realized it was my mother\u2019s lawyer. He said she needed to come urgently to sign some papers and collect some of her belongings.<br>My heart dropped when I discovered an old suitcase full of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>drawings\u2014my childhood doodles, all neatly kept\u2014as well as the small art projects I had done in school. All this time, I thought my mother didn\u2019t care about me, and I was wrong. I am devastated that she<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wanted to reconcile, and I didn\u2019t give her a chance. But at least my daughter was better than me; she grew close to her in her final years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70798\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family is intended to be a haven, a place of warmth and comfort where we can feel protected and supported. But what happens when the ones we&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70841,"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\/70840"}],"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=70840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70842,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70840\/revisions\/70842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}