{"id":8093,"date":"2025-09-27T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:28:22","slug":"10-stories-that-remind-us-to-love-our-family-even-when-its-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8093","title":{"rendered":"10 Stories That Remind Us to Love Our Family, Even When It\u2019s Not Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My\u00a0dad never allowed\u00a0us to\u00a0meet grandma. He\u00a0said,<strong>\u00a0\u201cConsider her dead.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Mom would stay quiet.<br>I\u00a0always assumed she was a\u00a0bad person until\u00a0I started working as\u00a0a\u00a0nurse.During my\u00a0first week at\u00a0the hospital, I\u00a0saw her name and her picture on\u00a0the wall in\u00a0the doctors\u2019 lounge room. I\u00a0froze. When I\u00a0went to\u00a0see her to\u00a0make sure if\u00a0she really was my\u00a0grandma or\u00a0just had the same name, she indeed was.\u00a0<strong>This woman turned out to\u00a0be\u00a0the head of\u00a0the oncology department.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a\u00a0second\u00a0I was horrified. But then, everything that\u00a0I thought turned out wrong. Everyone admired her for being kind and devoted, often treating patients for free. She wasn\u2019t the bad person I\u2019d been told about\u2014<strong>she was an\u00a0extraordinary woman.\u00a0<\/strong>The truth was different from my\u00a0dad\u2019s version&#8230;<br>When he\u00a0was five, Grandma returned to\u00a0finish her degree. She spent long hours at\u00a0the hospital, saving lives, while her husband resented her for not being a\u00a0traditional housewife. By\u00a0the time my\u00a0dad was seven, they divorced, and his father won custody.\u00a0<strong>He\u00a0convinced my\u00a0dad that his mother never wanted him<\/strong>. She tried many times to\u00a0get close to\u00a0him, but Dad always rejected her, and over time he\u00a0had completely shut her out.<br>From everything I\u2019ve seen, Grandma is\u00a0a\u00a0genuinely good person. I\u00a0made it\u00a0my\u00a0mission to\u00a0help my\u00a0dad reconnect with her. Two years later, she\u2019s part of\u00a0our family again, and my\u00a0dad finally cherishes her.<strong>\u00a0It\u00a0can\u2019t replace the lost years, but it\u2019s a\u00a0start.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0dad never allowed\u00a0us to\u00a0meet grandma. He\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cConsider her dead.\u201d\u00a0Mom would stay quiet.I\u00a0always assumed she was a\u00a0bad person until\u00a0I started working as\u00a0a\u00a0nurse.During my\u00a0first week at\u00a0the hospital, I\u00a0saw her name&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":614,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8095,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions\/8095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}