My 40th birthday trip was supposed to bring our blended family together. Instead, my husband asked my 16-year-old daughter to spend the vacation babysitting her 5-year-old stepbrother. When she refused, he canceled her ticket and invited his mother in her place.
\nAfter we arrived, my daughter called to say she had moved in with her biological father in another state. \u201cIt feels like I\u2019m not one of your priorities anymore,\u201d she told me. I flew to see her that night, but she refuses to come home.
\nI love my husband, and I believed we had a happy marriage. Now I\u2019m wondering how to rebuild my daughter\u2019s trust\u2014and why I let her stepfather exclude her from our family trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My 40th birthday trip was supposed to bring our blended family together. Instead, my husband asked my 16-year-old daughter to spend the vacation babysitting her 5-year-old stepbrother. When she refused, he canceled her ticket and invited his mother in her place. After we arrived, my daughter called to say she had moved in with her …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24357","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\/24357","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=24357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24359,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions\/24359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}