{"id":5329,"date":"2025-06-24T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:50:33","slug":"my-mom-always-controlled-my-entire-life-but-what-she-did-to-ruin-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Always Controlled My Entire Life, but What She Did to Ruin My\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">My mom always had control over my life. She picked my clothes, chose my friends, and even hid my college acceptance letter from NYU\u2014because she didn\u2019t want me to leave her. I stayed home, gave up my dreams, and tried to make her happy. Dating was nearly impossible. Every guy left once they saw how involved my mom was. But then I met Colin. He was different. Patient, kind, and somehow even managed to get along with her. A year later,he proposed\u2014and I said yes. That\u2019s when things got worse. My mom took over our wedding completely. She picked the venue, the food, even my dress. It felt like <em>her<\/em> wedding, not mine. Then, she dropped a surprise\u2014she expected to live with us after the wedding. When I said Colin and I were moving into his place, she lost it. A few days later, she suddenly became \u201cill.\u201d Coughing,<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>chest pain, constant weakness. We canceled everything. Our savings went into her treatment, and my world shrank down to caregiving and worry. Colin and I barely saw each other, and when we did, she was always between us. But something felt off. Her \u201csymptoms\u201d didn\u2019t add up. I took her to a new doctor\u2014Dr. Green\u2014and what he told me shattered me: \u201cYour mom is perfectly healthy.\u201d She had faked it all to keep me from leaving. I confronted her. She broke down,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1588980\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>crying, \u201cI just didn\u2019t want to be alone.\u201d My heart ached, but I had no choice. I packed my things, called Colin, and left. She begged me not to go, screamed at Colin, but I kept walking. For the first time, I put myself first. I don\u2019t know what the future holds with her, but I know this: I finally took control of\u00a0<em>my<\/em>\u00a0life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom always had control over my life. She picked my clothes, chose my friends, and even hid my college acceptance letter from NYU\u2014because she didn\u2019t want me to leave her. I stayed home, gave up my dreams, and tried to make her happy. Dating was nearly impossible. Every guy left once they saw how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","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\/5329","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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5331,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}