{"id":514,"date":"2025-08-23T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:22:15","slug":"i-refuse-to-forgive-my-mom-she-called-my-infertility-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Forgive My Mom\u2014She Called My Infertility \u201cKarma\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I&nbsp;was diagnosed with infertility after years of&nbsp;trying. It&nbsp;shattered&nbsp;me. I&nbsp;finally opened up&nbsp;to&nbsp;my&nbsp;mom, hoping for comfort. She said, \u201cWell, maybe it\u2019s karma for getting that abortion in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/tags\/college\/\">college<\/a>. Life has a&nbsp;way of&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;us lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I\u00a0didn\u2019t speak. Just left.Months later, I\u00a0cut her off completely. No\u00a0calls, no\u00a0visits. She kept texting, saying\u00a0I was being dramatic and \u201cpunishing her for being honest.\u201d I\u00a0blocked her.Then last week, I\u00a0got a\u00a0letter in\u00a0the mail. No\u00a0apology\u2014just a\u00a0printed flyer for an\u00a0adoption agency, circled with: \u201cYou still have options.\u201dI\u00a0laughed. Then cried.And threw it\u00a0straight in\u00a0the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&nbsp;was diagnosed with infertility after years of&nbsp;trying. It&nbsp;shattered&nbsp;me. I&nbsp;finally opened up&nbsp;to&nbsp;my&nbsp;mom, hoping for comfort. She said, \u201cWell, maybe it\u2019s karma for getting that abortion in&nbsp;college. Life has&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":553,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}