{"id":12630,"date":"2026-03-27T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:30:58","slug":"i-heard-my-baby-crying-while-i-was-bathing-and-my-wife-was-watching-tv-when-i-entered-his-room-i-screamed-in-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12630","title":{"rendered":"I heard my baby crying while I was bathing and my wife was watching TV \u2013 When I entered his room, I screamed in surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night, I rushed out of the shower to find my 3-year-old covered in red paint, crying\u2014while my wife sat nearby, absorbed in her iPad. I was angry and confused, thinking she had ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth was deeper. She had been struggling with depression\u2014feeling lost, overwhelmed, and disconnected after years of putting herself last.<\/p>\n<p>With help from therapy and support, things slowly changed. She began healing, reconnecting with our son, and rediscovering her passion for art.<\/p>\n<p>I learned it wasn\u2019t neglect\u2014it was silent suffering. And sometimes, what looks like distance is actually someone quietly falling apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One night, I rushed out of the shower to find my 3-year-old covered in red paint, crying\u2014while my wife sat nearby, absorbed in her iPad. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12630\" title=\"I heard my baby crying while I was bathing and my wife was watching TV \u2013 When I entered his room, I screamed in surprise\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12632,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions\/12632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}