{"id":6716,"date":"2025-08-15T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:34:38","slug":"my-mom-abandoned-me-when-i-was-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6716","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Abandoned Me When I Was 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"266\">When I was nine, my mother left me with strangers, promising she\u2019d come back. But she never did. Two years in foster care taught me that hope can be dangerous. By thirteen, I stopped waiting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"459\">Years later, I had my own daughter, Emma. I vowed she\u2019d never feel abandoned like I did. Life was finally good \u2014 until one night, my mother showed up at my door, homeless and asking for help.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"631\">I let her in, hoping to break the cycle. But her bitterness and harsh words quickly surfaced. When she tried to turn Emma against me, I knew I had to protect my daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"783\">I packed my mother\u2019s things and told her to leave. She said, \u201cFamily is all you have.\u201d I replied, \u201cLove is all you have \u2014 and you lost mine long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"843\">Now, I\u2019m the mother Emma deserves. The cycle ends with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was nine, my mother left me with strangers, promising she\u2019d come back. But she never did. Two years in foster care taught me that hope can be dangerous. By thirteen, I stopped waiting. Years later, I had my own daughter, Emma. I vowed she\u2019d never feel abandoned like I did. Life was finally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6716","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\/6716","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=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}