{"id":5986,"date":"2026-03-04T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:01:14","slug":"my-son-from-my-first-marriage-has-contacted-me-but-i-dont-want-to-see-him-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"My Son From My First Marriage Has Contacted Me, but I Don\u2019t Want to See Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a work lunch and saw my wife there at the restaurant. It was weird because 20 minutes ago, she had texted me saying that she was home. I was going to call her name, but she was staring at her phone, smiling and typing, so I silently watched her. Then, all of a sudden, my phone chimed.<\/p>\n<p>I froze when I saw it was a photo of her. She had sent me a selfie from home with a face mask on. She wrote, \u2019Can\u2019t wait for you to come home! xoxo.\u2019 I went straight to her table to confront her, and she turned pale when she saw me.<\/p>\n<p>I asked what she was doing there, and just then the waiter approached her and handed her bags of takeout food. Turns out she was preparing a romantic dinner at home for us in the evening, and she was there to pick up the food because it\u2019s my favorite restaurant. That\u2019s why she\u2019d been so secretive about it, so that I wouldn\u2019t suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a work lunch and saw my wife there at the restaurant. It was weird because 20 minutes ago, she had texted me saying that she was home. I was going to call her name, but she was staring at her phone, smiling and typing, so I silently watched her. Then, all of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Capture12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}