{"id":83906,"date":"2024-10-07T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=83906"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:08:49","slug":"my-daughter-left-me-when-i-was-most-vulnerable-now-she-wants-to-reconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/my-daughter-left-me-when-i-was-most-vulnerable-now-she-wants-to-reconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter Left Me When I Was Most Vulnerable \u2014 Now She Wants to Reconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many years ago, I was diagnosed with a grave illness. My only daughter, then 23, turned her back on me and stopped visiting, saying, “I’m too busy building a life.”\n
I disowned her. It took me almost five years to recover, and as soon as I did, I removed her from my will.\n Now her 16-year-old daughter, who never asked about me or searched for me, has appeared out of the blue. In tears, she said, “Mom had been struggling without you, and I want you two to reconnect.” When I asked her what took her so long, to my horror she said that her mother was “embarrassed to confront me and couldn’t find the courage.”\n After listening to my granddaughter, I understood that they were struggling financially, and I am highly suspicious that this is the only reason why her daughter is trying to reconnect now, after all these years.\n I am lost, and even though I’d like to at least give my only grandchild a chance, I fear that she is as manipulative as her mother and that all she is after is my money.\n What should I do?\n Source: nowiveseeneverything\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many years ago, I was diagnosed with a grave illness. My only daughter, then 23, turned her back on me and stopped visiting, saying, “I’m too busy building a life.” I disowned her. It took me almost five years to recover, and as soon as I did, I removed her from my will. Now her …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":83910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83909,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906\/revisions\/83909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}