{"id":223,"date":"2025-01-21T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2025-01-21T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:00:27","slug":"my-5-year-old-son-started-avoiding-his-mom-his-reason-greatly-worried-me-so-i-confronted-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"My 5-Year-Old Son Started Avoiding His Mom &#8211; His Reason Greatly Worried Me, So I Confronted My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could cause a five-year-old boy to suddenly withdraw from someone he adored? His confession shocked me, revealing a family secret Candice had been hiding \u2014 a secret that had kept her in tears for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Robert, 32, a husband and father. Until recently, my life centered around work and family. Though balancing both was tough, I cherished coming home to my wife, Candice, and our five-year-old son, Sam.<\/p>\n<p>Candice and I have been married for eight years. She was once a nurse, but when Sam was born, we decided she would stay home to care for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>What could cause a five-year-old boy to suddenly withdraw from someone he adored? His confession shocked me, revealing a family secret Candice had been hiding <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=223\" title=\"My 5-Year-Old Son Started Avoiding His Mom &#8211; His Reason Greatly Worried Me, So I Confronted My Wife\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","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\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}