{"id":178,"date":"2025-05-14T18:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:45:58","slug":"2-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=178","title":{"rendered":"2 \/ 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>while Rachel was sick, I helped clean their apartment. In my dad\u2019s drawer, I found their marriage certificate\u2014dated 1988. But I was born in 1995. That\u2019s when it hit me: <strong>Rachel was the wife. My mom was the other woman.<\/strong> Everything I thought I knew crumbled. I confronted my dad, and the truth came out. He had cheated on Rachel with my mom, who was once Rachel\u2019s close friend. When my mom got pregnant, Rachel left\u2014but after I was born, something changed in her. She forgave them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> and she chose to love me. Rachel walked in during our conversation, and I ran into her arms. I finally understood her strength, her kindness. She never owed me anything, yet she gave me love unconditionally. Now, I see my family differently. It\u2019s not traditional\u2014but it\u2019s full of forgiveness and love. I don\u2019t just have a mother and a father\u2014I have <strong>two women<\/strong> who chose to raise me, in their own way. And that makes me feel incredibly lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>while Rachel was sick, I helped clean their apartment. In my dad\u2019s drawer, I found their marriage certificate\u2014dated 1988. But I was born in 1995. That\u2019s when it hit me:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":2131,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}