{"id":5468,"date":"2026-03-29T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:19:47","slug":"not-my-apartment-not-my-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5468","title":{"rendered":"Not My Apartment, Not My Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"275\">My ex called me in tears, saying his new girlfriend had kicked him out. Against my better judgment, I felt bad and let him crash on my couch for the night. It felt like the decent thing to do\u2014just one night, no strings attached.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"277\" data-end=\"496\">The next morning, I woke up to the smell of breakfast. Coffee was ready, food was made, and for a split second it almost felt\u2026 familiar. Like old times. Then I saw the note on the counter: <em data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"494\">\u201cYou were always the one.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"531\">That\u2019s when my stomach dropped.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"676\">Before I could even process it, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to find his girlfriend standing there, clearly upset and confused.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"728\">Turns out, he\u2019d told her this was his apartment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"878\">So now I\u2019m standing there, half-awake, holding his note, while she\u2019s looking past me trying to figure out why another woman is inside \u201chis place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"991\">I felt embarrassed, used, and honestly a little angry at myself for letting him back into my space so easily.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"1041\">Needless to say, he didn\u2019t stay another night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1115\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Some people don\u2019t just burn bridges\u2014they try to rebuild them using lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ex called me in tears, saying his new girlfriend had kicked him out. Against my better judgment, I felt bad and let him crash on my couch for the night. It felt like the decent thing to do\u2014just one night, no strings attached. The next morning, I woke up to the smell of breakfast. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5468","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\/5468","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=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5470,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}