{"id":25083,"date":"2025-12-17T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25083"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:02:24","slug":"i-thought-he-chose-me-until-i-learned-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25083","title":{"rendered":"I Thought He Chose Me \u2014 Until I Learned the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019d had a quiet crush on my boss for years, but I never crossed a line. He was married, and I respected that. When he and his wife eventually divorced, I was shocked\u2014but when he asked me out soon after, I was over the moon. Things moved quickly, and before I knew it, we were officially dating. I truly believed this was the start of something real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the truth hit hard. I discovered he was only seeing me to make his ex-wife jealous and lure her back. I wasn\u2019t a partner\u2014I was a pawn. What he didn\u2019t expect was that the plan would completely backfire. Once I found out, I walked away without hesitation, and instead of winning his ex back, he lost both of us. What started as heartbreak turned into clarity\u2014and the strength to choose my own worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d had a quiet crush on my boss for years, but I never crossed a line. He was married, and I respected that. When he and his&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":313,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083","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=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25085,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions\/25085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}