{"id":254,"date":"2025-09-13T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:12:24","slug":"she-said-she-was-sorry-but-not-to-me-and-not-for-what-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"She Said She Was Sorry\u2014But Not To Me, And Not For What I Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">At my dad\u2019s funeral, my aunt Rina sobbed, whispering, \u201cI should\u2019ve told her the truth.\u201d My dad, the family anchor, died of a heart attack, leaving my mom distant and me to speak at the service. Rina\u2019s muttering stuck with me. Weeks later, my mom called: Rina confessed she\u2019d dated my dad secretly before he met my mom. Scared he\u2019d never propose, Rina lied about a pregnancy to push him away. He then fell for my mom, but wrote Rina a letter<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">before their wedding, professing lingering love. Rina, now terminally ill, revealed this guilt at my mom\u2019s house, producing the letter. My mom, unaware, felt betrayed but refused to hate. Rina died soon after, leaving her house to my mom as atonement. My mom donated it to a women\u2019s shelter, choosing grace over bitterness. I learned forgiveness isn\u2019t forgetting\u2014it\u2019s choosing your own ending. Despite secrets and pain, my mom\u2019s strength taught me to rise above and write my own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my dad\u2019s funeral, my aunt Rina sobbed, whispering, \u201cI should\u2019ve told her the truth.\u201d My dad, the family anchor, died of a heart attack, leaving my mom distant and me to speak at the service. Rina\u2019s muttering stuck with me. Weeks later, my mom called: Rina confessed she\u2019d dated my dad secretly before he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}