{"id":23245,"date":"2025-12-09T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23245"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:54:32","slug":"my-dad-showed-up-at-my-house-late-at-night-saying-he-was-divorcing-my-mom-his-real-reason-left-me-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23245","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Showed Up at My House Late at Night Saying He Was Divorcing My Mom \u2013 His Real Reason Left Me Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Dad Said He Was Getting a Divorce at 11 p.m.\u2014But the Truth Was Something I Never ExpectedWhen my dad showed up at my front door at 11 p.m., holding a packed bag and saying, \u201cI\u2019m divorcing your mother,\u201d I was stunned. Completely frozen. But as the night went on, I realized this wasn\u2019t just about a marriage ending\u2014something deeper and weirder was going on.And up until that very night, life had actually been going great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I was seven months pregnant with our first baby, and even though I waddled everywhere and had crazy cravings for peanut butter pickles, I was glowing\u2014or at least Peter, my sweet husband, said I was. Peter and I had spent weeks turning the guest room into a warm little nursery.The walls were painted a soft sunshine yellow, and above the crib, a mobile of tiny stars spun slowly in the breeze from the ceiling fan. Every night before bed, Peter would gently rub cocoa butter on my belly while we tried to decide on baby names. \u201cHow about Emma if it\u2019s a girl?\u201d Peter asked one night, his hands moving in slow, soothing circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad Said He Was Getting a Divorce at 11 p.m.\u2014But the Truth Was Something I Never ExpectedWhen my dad showed up at my front door at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":379,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245","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=23245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23247,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions\/23247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}