{"id":94189,"date":"2024-10-14T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/?p=94189"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:58:12","slug":"dad-look-moms-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/dad-look-moms-back\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dad, Look, Mom\u2019s Back!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastated After Burying My Wife, I Took My Son on Vacation \u2013 My Blood Ran Cold When He Said, <strong>\u2018Dad, Look, Mom\u2019s Back!\u2019\n<p>At 34, I lost my wife, Stacey, in a tragic accident, or so I thought. Her father called to tell me the news,\n</p><p><strong>\u201cStacey\u2026 she\u2019s gone.\u201d When I returned, her mother told me,\n<p><strong>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to wait\u2026 it was better this way,\u201d leaving me overwhelmed and robbed of any chance to say goodbye.\n<p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-94272 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/mom-back.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1080\"' height='\"1350\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mom-back.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The emptiness at home was unbearable. My son, Luke, struggled to understand why <strong>\u201cMommy can\u2019t come home.\u201d\n<p>To escape the pain, we went to the beach. For a few days, the sun and sand brought some light, until Luke suddenly pointed and exclaimed, <strong>\u201cDad, look, Mom\u2019s back!\u201d\n<p>I froze, spotting a woman who looked exactly like Stacey.\n</p><p>In disbelief, I confronted her. Stacey admitted she\u2019d faked her death, driven by an affair and a pregnancy. Her parents had helped her vanish. <strong>\u201cWe thought it was best,\u201d she said, and the pain cut deeper.\n<p>As she spoke, Luke saw her and cried, <strong>\u201cMommy?\u201d I scooped him up, shielding him from her betrayal. Soon after, I secured full custody, moved us to a new city, and started over.\n<p>Months later, Stacey tried to reach out, but I deleted her message, holding Luke close. <strong>\u201cI love you, buddy.\u201d\n<p>Healing wasn\u2019t easy, but Luke and I had each other, and that was enough. <strong>\u201cI love you too, Daddy,\u201d he said, and I knew we would be okay.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastated After Burying My Wife, I Took My Son on Vacation \u2013 My Blood Ran Cold When He Said, \u2018Dad, Look, Mom\u2019s Back!\u2019 At 34, I lost my wife, Stacey, in a tragic accident, or so I thought. Her father called to tell me the news, \u201cStacey\u2026 she\u2019s gone.\u201d When I returned, her mother told\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[657,642],"tags":[818],"class_list":{"0":"post-94189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-love-and-relationships","8":"category-moral-story","9":"tag-moral-touching-stories"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mom-back.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94273,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189\/revisions\/94273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p>