{"id":20239,"date":"2025-11-26T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20239"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:11:11","slug":"i-refuse-to-stop-swimming-even-though-our-neighbor-hates-it-our-pool-our-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20239","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Stop Swimming Even Though Our Neighbor Hates It \u2014 Our Pool, Our Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Helen and her husband moved in, their new neighbors seemed friendly. But things changed quickly once Helen started using her backyard pool. The neighbor mom suddenly demanded, \u201cStop using your pool \u2014 you\u2019re upsetting my daughter.\u201d Helen refused, reminding herself it was <em>their<\/em> home and <em>their<\/em> pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day while swimming, Helen noticed the neighbor\u2019s daughter quietly watching. The girl held a photo of her little brother and finally told Helen the truth: two years earlier, he drowned in their old pool. She had never learned to swim, and her mother now avoided anything related to water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Helen could say more, the mother appeared, furious. Helen gently told her, \u201cI\u2019m a preschool swim instructor. I can teach her to be safe around water.\u201d The mother went pale and left without a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Helen feels torn. She wants to help the girl, but she also knows the mother is grieving. Should she reach out again with kindness, or give the family space to heal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Helen and her husband moved in, their new neighbors seemed friendly. But things changed quickly once Helen started using her backyard pool. The neighbor mom suddenly&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":331,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20249,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions\/20249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}