{"id":474,"date":"2025-08-23T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:38:49","slug":"my-terminally-ill-mother-wanted-to-move-in-but-i-said-no-she-left-me-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"My Terminally Ill Mother Wanted to Move In, but I Said No \u2014 She Left Me First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">My\u00a0mom left me\u00a0for another man when\u00a0I was\u00a011, so\u00a0my\u00a0dad raised me\u00a0alone. Now I\u2019m 29, my\u00a0dad\u2019s gone, and the house is\u00a0mine. Last week, my\u00a0mom called out of\u00a0nowhere. Said she was terminally ill and wanted to\u00a0\u201cfix things\u201d and wanted to\u00a0move back into my\u00a0house. She added, \u201cIt\u00a0would mean a\u00a0lot to\u00a0stay in\u00a0the home\u00a0I raised you\u00a0in.\u201d I\u00a0refused and told her, \u201cYou didn\u2019t raise\u00a0me. You left.\u201d She cried and said\u00a0I was being cruel. That I\u2019m her only child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br>I\u00a0didn\u2019t think much of\u00a0it\u00a0until yesterday. The police showed up\u00a0at\u00a0my\u00a0door and told me\u00a0a\u00a0neighbor had called. They said there was an\u00a0unresponsive woman on\u00a0my\u00a0front steps. It\u00a0was my\u00a0mom. She\u2019d been out there for hours, her bags still beside her. They think she collapsed from exhaustion or\u00a0maybe from the meds she stopped taking.Now she\u2019s in\u00a0the hospital. They asked if\u00a0I was her emergency contact. I\u00a0said\u00a0no. I\u00a0felt a\u00a0pang of\u00a0guilt. But I\u2019ve spent more years grieving a\u00a0living mother than most people spend grieving after one dies. I\u2019m not opening my\u00a0door to\u00a0someone who closed it\u00a0on\u00a0me\u00a0first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0mom left me\u00a0for another man when\u00a0I was\u00a011, so\u00a0my\u00a0dad raised me\u00a0alone. Now I\u2019m 29, my\u00a0dad\u2019s gone, and the house is\u00a0mine. Last week, my\u00a0mom called out of\u00a0nowhere. Said she&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":853,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}