George married his wife two years ago and became stepdad to her two kids. Things were going fine\u2014until she and her sister booked a 12-day, no-kids-allowed cruise. She didn\u2019t ask if he could watch the kids; she simply assumed he would. George told her it was too much for him to handle alone and that it wasn\u2019t what they\u2019d agreed on as co-parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But on the day of the trip, she packed her bags and left anyway, fully expecting him to take over. Feeling pressured and overwhelmed, George called his mother-in-law and explained the situation. She agreed to watch the kids, and they stayed with her for most of the 12 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When his wife returned, she was furious. She accused George of \u201cabandoning\u201d her kids and claimed he didn\u2019t care about them. George insists he did<\/em> care\u2014he made sure the kids were safe and with someone who could handle the responsibility, instead of being forced into a role he never agreed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now he\u2019s being painted as the villain, and he\u2019s left wondering if he was actually wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" George married his wife two years ago and became stepdad to her two kids. Things were going fine\u2014until she and her sister booked a 12-day, no-kids-allowed cruise…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675","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=22675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22677,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions\/22677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}