{"id":37583,"date":"2026-02-11T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=37583"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:15:46","slug":"my-husband-was-supposed-to-watch-our-daughter-while-i-worked-but-i-found-out-hed-been-dropping-her-off-with-the-neighbors-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=37583","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Was Supposed to Watch Our Daughter While I Worked \u2013 but I Found Out He&#8217;d Been Dropping Her Off with the Neighbors for Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband was supposed to be home with our three-year-old while I worked extra shifts. Then my neighbor called, sick and panicked, asking when I was coming to pick up my daughter. What I learned next made me realize I didn&#8217;t just have a childcare problem \u2014 I had a trust problem.<br>AdvertisementI&#8217;m Karen (32F). My husband Ben is 34. Our daughter Melissa is three, which means she has opinions and a volume setting that doesn&#8217;t work.A month after Melissa was born, I went back to work. Not because I wanted to. Because bills don&#8217;t care.And I believed him. Ben&#8217;s always been a good dad. Present. Patient. The kind who can do bedtime without calling me like tech support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Tuesday happened.At 3:00 p.m., my phone rang. Diane.Diane is our neighbor. Older, kind, and she has asthma. When Diane says she&#8217;s sick, you listen.She sounded rough.&#8221;Karen,&#8221; she wheezed, &#8220;when are you coming to pick up Melissa?&#8221;I went cold. &#8220;Pick up Melissa?&#8221;Diane coughed hard. &#8220;Honey, I&#8217;m sick. Ben isn&#8217;t answering.&#8221;My stomach dropped.&#8221;Why is Melissa with you?&#8221; I asked.A pause. Then Diane said, &#8220;Ben has been dropping her here every day for two weeks. Morning to evening. I thought you knew.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband was supposed to be home with our three-year-old while I worked extra shifts. Then my neighbor called, sick and panicked, asking when I was coming&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":526,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583","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=37583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37586,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583\/revisions\/37586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}