Lila loved her birthday, not for big gifts, but for the thought behind them. This year, though, her husband Mark handed her a cheap bottle of shower gel\u2014lavender-scented, a fragrance he knew she hated. They weren\u2019t struggling for money; he could\u2019ve at least gotten flowers, her favorite. Hurt and angry, Lila poured the gel down the toilet, tears streaming down her face. When Mark came home, cheerful and clueless, he asked, \u201cDid you\u2026?\u201d She cut him off, her voice trembling. \u201cI hated it, Mark. I flushed it.\u201d For the first time that day, he saw her pain\u2014and realized how little he\u2019d been paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lila loved her birthday, not for big gifts, but for the thought behind them. This year, though, her husband Mark handed her a cheap bottle of shower gel\u2014lavender-scented, a fragrance he knew she hated. They weren\u2019t struggling for money; he could\u2019ve at least gotten flowers, her favorite. Hurt and angry, Lila poured the gel down …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","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\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}