{"id":3436,"date":"2026-01-21T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:09:54","slug":"i-refuse-to-save-the-father-who-abandoned-me-now-everyone-calls-me-heartless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Save the Father Who Abandoned Me\u2014Now Everyone Calls Me Heartless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"324\">I was raised by my mom after my dad walked out when I was five. He started a new family, never paid child support, and never called\u2014not on birthdays, not on holidays. I grew up without him and eventually built a life without needing him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"528\">Now, years later, his wife called to say my father is very sick and needs a kidney transplant. She told me I\u2019m the best match and begged me to get tested because no one else in his family is compatible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"540\">I said no.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"661\">I don\u2019t feel obligated to risk my health for a man who chose to be absent my entire life. He made his choices long ago.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"663\" data-end=\"864\">Since then, his family has flooded me with messages, calling me selfish and heartless, saying I should \u201cbe the bigger person.\u201d Even my mom thinks I should consider it so I won\u2019t feel guilty if he dies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"866\" data-end=\"947\">But I don\u2019t feel guilty. I feel like he\u2019s facing the consequences of his choices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"996\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Still, part of me wonders\u2014am I being too harsh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was raised by my mom after my dad walked out when I was five. He started a new family, never paid child support, and never called\u2014not on birthdays, not on holidays. I grew up without him and eventually built a life without needing him. Now, years later, his wife called to say my father &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","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\/3436","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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}