{"id":177,"date":"2025-05-14T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:46:11","slug":"my-dad-left-me-when-i-was-a-child-he-lived-with-my-godmother-2-floors-up-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Left Me When I Was a Child, He Lived with My Godmother 2 Floors Up \u2014 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grew up with a confusing family dynamic. I lived with my mom, while my dad lived just two floors above us\u2014with Rachel, my godmother. That arrangement always felt odd, but anytime I asked about it, my mom would say, <em>\u201cYou\u2019ll understand when you\u2019re older.\u201d<\/em> As a child, I didn\u2019t question it too much. I loved spending weekends at my dad\u2019s place. Rachel was sweet and caring, and my dad always brought me toys. But things changed when a friend asked why my dad lived with another woman. Suddenly, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it didn\u2019t feel normal anymore. I started comparing my family to others and wondering why mine wasn\u2019t like theirs. When I pressed my mom for the truth, she always dodged it. Frustrated, I began seeing Rachel not as my loving godmother, but as the woman who stood in the way of my parents being together. I became distant, cold. Rachel noticed, but I never explained why. Over time, I buried my questions and tried to move on. Years later, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=178\">..READ MORE..<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with a confusing family dynamic. I lived with my mom, while my dad lived just two floors above us\u2014with Rachel, my godmother. That arrangement always felt odd,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":3098,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}