{"id":24457,"date":"2025-12-15T00:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24457"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:17:48","slug":"my-mom-lent-me-10000-i-refuse-to-pay-it-back-i-already-paid-for-my-awful-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24457","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Lent Me $10,000\u2014I Refuse to Pay It Back, I Already Paid for My Awful Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grew up with a mother who called her control and emotional abuse \u201csacrifice.\u201d I left at 18 determined never to owe her again. Years later, after losing my job, I borrowed $10,000 from her\u2014only to realize it came with constant guilt, manipulation, and reminders of how much I \u201cowed\u201d her for being my parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I got back on my feet, she demanded repayment. I told her the truth: I\u2019d already paid\u2014with my childhood. She gave me money once; I gave her years of fear, pressure, and emotional debt. I refuse to give her anything more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with a mother who called her control and emotional abuse \u201csacrifice.\u201d I left at 18 determined never to owe her again. Years later, after&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457","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=24457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24459,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457\/revisions\/24459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}