{"id":4305,"date":"2025-04-22T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:43:28","slug":"my-stepmom-abandoned-me-as-a-child-now-she-wants-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"My Stepmom Abandoned Me as a Child\u2014Now, She Wants a Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"528\">I was just 12 when my dad passed away, and the loss was devastating, especially since my mother had died when I was young. My stepmother, the closest thing I had to a mom, barely acknowledged me during the funeral. Within two months, she left me with my grandparents and remarried. I was heartbroken, but my grandparents stepped in and gave me the support I needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"939\">Years later, while I was working as a doctor, I ran into her at the hospital. She looked different\u2014vulnerable. She confessed that my father\u2019s death had sent her into a deep depression, and by the time she realized the depth of it, her new marriage had already crumbled. She had spent years in therapy trying to recover, and now, with a cancer diagnosis, she was asking for forgiveness and for me to reconnect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1155\">I feel torn. Part of me still resents her for abandoning me when I needed her most, but I also understand depression is a real illness. I\u2019m unsure whether I should forgive her or keep my distance. What should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just 12 when my dad passed away, and the loss was devastating, especially since my mother had died when I was young. My stepmother, the closest thing I had to a mom, barely acknowledged me during the funeral. Within two months, she left me with my grandparents and remarried. I was heartbroken, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}