{"id":23491,"date":"2024-12-23T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23491"},"modified":"2024-12-23T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:26:57","slug":"i-had-a-child-at-40-to-please-my-mother-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23491","title":{"rendered":"I Had a Child at 40 to Please My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I never wanted kids, but at 40, my mom pressured me by threatening to withhold her money. I had a daughter, and my mom mostly raised her.<\/p>\n<p>When my mom died 15 years later, I discovered her valuables were gone, except for a hidden note saying, *\u201dI had to choose the right person.\u201d* At the will reading, I learned everything was left to my daughter, who gets it all when she turns 18. Until then, I\u2019m allowed just $1,000 a month to spend on her.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part? My daughter already knew\u2014my mom had told her. I now realize my mom resented me for rejecting her plans and only wanted a grandchild to mold. I feel cheated and distant from my daughter, unsure how to handle this.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I know it sounds like I had my child for the money, but I wanted to please my mom, who always saw me as a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I never wanted kids, but at 40, my mom pressured me by threatening to withhold her money. I had a daughter, and my mom mostly raised her. When my mom died 15 years later, I discovered her valuables were gone, except for a hidden note saying, *\u201dI had to choose the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23492,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23491\/revisions\/23492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}