{"id":24601,"date":"2025-12-15T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:02:00","slug":"while-we-were-opening-christmas-gifts-my-5-year-old-yelled-yes-the-other-mom-kept-her-promise-after-a-long-pause-my-husband-finally-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24601","title":{"rendered":"While We Were Opening Christmas Gifts, My 5-Year-Old Yelled, &#8216;Yes! The Other Mom Kept Her Promise!&#8217; \u2013 After a Long Pause, My Husband Finally Spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christmas morning stopped cold when my five-year-old opened a gift and yelled that his &#8220;other mom&#8221; had kept her promise. My husband went pale. He knew exactly who she was \u2014 and the longer he hesitated, the more I realized this wasn&#8217;t a misunderstanding.My husband and I had been together for six years. We had one child, a five-year-old boy called Simon.Life wasn&#8217;t perfect, but it felt stable and predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There had been small cracks, of course. Every marriage has them.There were moments when my husband seemed distracted, distant, but I didn&#8217;t think they were red flags\u2026 I was wrong.I really should&#8217;ve paid more attention after the babysitter fiasco from earlier that year.See, we&#8217;d been drifting for a while, so we started having weekly date nights to reignite our spark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas morning stopped cold when my five-year-old opened a gift and yelled that his &#8220;other mom&#8221; had kept her promise. My husband went pale. He knew exactly&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1096,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","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=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24603,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions\/24603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}