{"id":8659,"date":"2026-02-12T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:47:02","slug":"the-love-they-tried-to-take-from-me-and-the-truth-that-almost-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8659","title":{"rendered":"The Love They Tried to Take From Me\u2014and the Truth That Almost Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"80\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"78\">I Lost My Parents\u2019 Approval for Love \u2014 Then Discovered My Husband\u2019s Secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"320\">I met my husband in high school\u2014my first love, my everything. One snowy night, he had a car accident and was told he\u2019d never walk again. My parents didn\u2019t care about him\u2014they cut me off, frozen college funds and all. I chose him anyway.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"496\">Fifteen years later, my mother stormed in with shocking documents: my husband had never been permanently paralyzed. He had refused a risky surgery out of fear of losing me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"653\">I was stunned\u2014but I realized something: we had built a life together, full of love, sacrifice, and trust. The truth didn\u2019t break us. It made us stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I Lost My Parents\u2019 Approval for Love \u2014 Then Discovered My Husband\u2019s Secret I met my husband in high school\u2014my first love, my everything. One <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8659\" title=\"The Love They Tried to Take From Me\u2014and the Truth That Almost Did\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8659","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\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}