{"id":5223,"date":"2025-06-21T21:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2025-06-21T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:16:48","slug":"my-husband-kept-rushing-to-help-his-ex-until-i-decided-to-tag-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5223","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Kept Rushing to Help His Ex\u2014Until I Decided to Tag Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u201cSurprise,\u201d I smiled.The kitchen was spotless\u2014except for a single suspicious puddle under the sink. Henry got to work. I handed him the wrench before Liz could move.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Then I turned to her and passed her a folded paper.\u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d she asked.\u201cA list of professionals,\u201d I replied. \u201cPlumbers. Electricians. And a dating app, just in case.\u201dAt the bottom I\u2019d written:<\/p>\n<p><em data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1712\">If you keep calling my husband, I\u2019ll assume you can\u2019t read.<\/em>Her face went red. \u201cYou think this is about pipes?\u201d\u201cNo,\u201d I said calmly. \u201cIt\u2019s about boundaries.\u201dOn the drive home, I gave Henry a divorce lawyer\u2019s card. \u201cNot a threat,\u201d I told him. \u201cA choice.\u201dHe was quiet for a while, then said, \u201cI\u2019ll call her tomorrow. I\u2019ll tell her I can\u2019t be her handyman anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>And he did.It\u2019s been three months. My faucet\u2019s fixed, and Liz hasn\u2019t called again. I hear she\u2019s dating someone\u2014a guy from the list I gave her. Handy and single.As for Henry? He still has his toolbox. But now, it only opens for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u201cSurprise,\u201d I smiled.The kitchen was spotless\u2014except for a single suspicious puddle under the sink. Henry got to work. I handed him the wrench before Liz could move. Then I turned to her and passed her a folded paper.\u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d she asked.\u201cA list of professionals,\u201d I replied. \u201cPlumbers. Electricians. And a dating app, just in case.\u201dAt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","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\/5223","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=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}