{"id":6404,"date":"2026-04-26T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:42","slug":"my-husband-and-i-divorced-after-36-years-at-his-funeral-his-dad-had-too-much-to-drink-and-said-you-dont-even-know-what-he-did-for-you-do-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=6404","title":{"rendered":"My Husband and I Divorced After 36 Years \u2013 at His Funeral, His Dad Had Too Much to Drink and Said, &#8216;You Don&#8217;t Even Know What He Did for You, Do You?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"241\">After 36 years of marriage, I found hotel receipts and thousands of dollars missing from our account. My husband refused to explain. No answers, no honesty\u2014just silence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"243\" data-end=\"282\">I couldn\u2019t live like that. So I left.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"441\">We divorced quietly, without drama\u2026 but also without closure. He never told me the truth. I spent two years wondering what kind of life he had been hiding.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"458\">Then he died.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"602\">At his funeral, his father, drunk and emotional, said something that shook me: <em data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"600\">\u201cThere are lies that don\u2019t come from wanting someone else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"638\">Days later, I received a letter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"668\">It was from my ex-husband.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"670\" data-end=\"763\">He admitted everything\u2014but not what I expected. There was no other woman. No secret affair.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"765\" data-end=\"828\">He had been going to those hotel rooms for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"867\">He was sick\u2026 and he hid it from me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"1031\">He said he didn\u2019t want to become my \u201cburden.\u201d He was afraid that if I knew, I would see him differently. So he chose silence\u2026 and lost everything because of it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1130\">I sat there holding that letter, realizing something that hurt more than the betrayal ever did\u2014<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1167\">It wasn\u2019t that he didn\u2019t love me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1236\">It was that he didn\u2019t trust me enough to let me stand beside him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1238\" data-end=\"1311\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">And some truths\u2026 come far too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 36 years of marriage, I found hotel receipts and thousands of dollars missing from our account. My husband refused to explain. No answers, no honesty\u2014just silence. I couldn\u2019t live like that. So I left. We divorced quietly, without drama\u2026 but also without closure. He never told me the truth. I spent two years wondering &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","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\/6404","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=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}