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\ud83d\udc94 My Parents Mocked My Dream of Becoming a Doctor\u20147 Years Later, They Wanted Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n At 20, I got into med school and ran to tell my parents. Instead of support, they laughed and told me to \u201cjust marry rich.\u201d<\/p>\n No hugs. No pride. No encouragement.<\/p>\n So I moved out and did it alone\u2014working multiple jobs, taking loans, surviving on little sleep and pure determination.<\/p>\n For seven years, they never checked on me.<\/p>\n Then, right before my White Coat Ceremony, they suddenly wanted to attend and celebrate \u201ctheir daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n I said no.<\/p>\n The ceremony was beautiful. I stood proud\u2014but also lonely.<\/p>\n Later, my mom wrote a letter admitting her fear and regrets. She had followed my success in secret and was always proud.<\/p>\n It hurt\u2026 because fear still abandoned me.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t become a doctor because they believed in me. \ud83d\udc49 Was I wrong for setting boundaries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83d\udc94 My Parents Mocked My Dream of Becoming a Doctor\u20147 Years Later, They Wanted Credit At 20, I got into med school and ran to tell my parents. Instead of support, they laughed and told me to \u201cjust marry rich.\u201d No hugs. No pride. No encouragement. So I moved out and did it alone\u2014working …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI did it because I believed in myself. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n