{"id":32891,"date":"2026-01-21T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=32891"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:31:03","slug":"my-sons-new-wife-forced-my-injured-granddaughter-to-watch-her-twins-while-she-went-out-that-was-the-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=32891","title":{"rendered":"My Son&#8217;s New Wife Forced My Injured Granddaughter to Watch Her Twins While She Went Out \u2014 That Was the Last Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My 15-year-old granddaughter Olivia lost her mom at eight. After my son remarried, his new wife seemed sweet until she had twins and turned Olivia into free help. Then, with a fractured shoulder, Olivia was left alone to babysit while her stepmom went bar-hopping. That&#8217;s when I stepped in.My granddaughter, Olivia, is 15 years old. Her mother, my son&#8217;s first wife, died when Olivia was eight. Cancer. The aggressive kind that doesn&#8217;t give you time to say proper goodbyes.Olivia never really recovered from losing her mom. She became quieter and more serious. Like grief had aged her beyond her years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My son, Scott, remarried three years later to a woman named Lydia. She walked into our lives with a warm smile and a gentle voice, and everyone thought she was exactly what Scott and Olivia needed.But I noticed things. Little comments directed at Olivia when Lydia thought no one was listening.&#8221;You&#8217;re old enough to move on now, Olivia.&#8221;&#8221;Stop being so emotional about everything.&#8221;&#8221;Your mom wouldn&#8217;t want you moping around like this.&#8221;Then, Lydia and Scott had twins. Two beautiful, exhausting toddlers who screamed in stereo and had a supernatural ability to destroy a clean room in under three minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 15-year-old granddaughter Olivia lost her mom at eight. After my son remarried, his new wife seemed sweet until she had twins and turned Olivia into free&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":997,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891","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=32891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32893,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891\/revisions\/32893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}