{"id":4253,"date":"2025-08-11T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:00:01","slug":"my-son-spoke-of-his-other-father-i-wasnt-ready-for-what-came-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"My Son Spoke of His \u2018Other Father\u2019\u2014I Wasn\u2019t Ready for What Came Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my five-year-old came home from a weekend with my sister Lily, he said, \u201cGuess what me and my other dad did!\u201d I laughed\u2014until I realized he was serious.<\/p>\n<p>Lily had always been my support, caring for Eli since birth and taking him on weekend adventures. Eli never knew his real father, Trent, who left before I knew I was pregnant. So who was this \u201cother dad\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The next weekend, I followed them to the park. There was Lily, Eli, and a man in a cap, laughing together. When he turned, I froze\u2014Trent. Older, leaner, but unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>Lily confessed she had told Trent about Eli. He claimed he never knew I was pregnant and wanted to meet his son. She thought she was protecting us, introducing him slowly. I felt betrayed, but when Eli asked to see Trent again, I couldn\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n<p>That night, I called Trent. \u201cI\u2019m not forgiving you overnight,\u201d I said, \u201cbut I won\u2019t keep Eli from you\u2014if we go slow, together.\u201d Trust was shaken, but maybe, with time, it could grow again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my five-year-old came home from a weekend with my sister Lily, he said, \u201cGuess what me and my other dad did!\u201d I laughed\u2014until I realized he was serious. Lily had always been my support, caring for Eli since birth and taking him on weekend adventures. Eli never knew his real father, Trent, who left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}