{"id":7265,"date":"2026-01-19T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:10:07","slug":"my-sister-moved-in-and-i-regret-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7265","title":{"rendered":"My Sister Moved In, And I Regret Everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Sister Moved In, and I Regret It<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a 40-year-old widower. Two months ago my 34-year-old sister and her two kids (7 and 4) moved in after a rough breakup. I thought I was doing the right thing with my big house and plenty of space.<\/p>\n<p>At first it seemed fine, though she slept until 1 p.m. most days. I made extra breakfast for the kids, which I enjoyed\u2014it gave me purpose after my wife died. But soon the kids started complaining about what I cooked and demanded cereal instead.<\/p>\n<p>I asked them to talk to their mom, but she stayed in bed all morning, never helping. I began to feel she was taking advantage of me. One night I checked the security cameras and was shocked to see her sneaking out every night from about 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I overheard her on the phone saying, \u201cYeah, he\u2019s still buying it\u2026 a few more days,\u201d and realized she wasn\u2019t struggling to recover\u2014she was deceiving me. I felt betrayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My Sister Moved In, and I Regret It I\u2019m a 40-year-old widower. Two months ago my 34-year-old sister and her two kids (7 and 4) <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7265\" title=\"My Sister Moved In, And I Regret Everything!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7265","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\/7265","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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7267,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions\/7267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}