{"id":4941,"date":"2025-06-26T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:08:04","slug":"she-was-too-sick-to-sleep-alone-so-i-laid-on-the-bathroom-floor-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"SHE WAS TOO SICK TO SLEEP ALONE, SO I LAID ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR WITH HER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"37\" data-end=\"257\">I thought I was a good dad\u2014present and steady. Liana\u2019s mom, Dana, left when Liana was six to \u201cfind herself.\u201d I didn\u2019t chase her; instead, I focused on being there for Liana. Now twelve, Liana\u2019s growing up fast and tough.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"522\">One night, she got sick and curled up on the bathroom floor, clutching her favorite pillow. I stayed with her, and she told me Dana had called\u2014wanted to talk to her but asked her not to tell me. I told Liana she could always talk to her mom and that I wasn\u2019t mad.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"774\">Dana later said she might visit, which made me nervous. When they met, I watched from a distance as Liana seemed unsure but hopeful. She told me Dana was different but still familiar, and she wasn\u2019t sure she trusted her yet. I told her that was okay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"1003\">Now Liana talks to Dana openly and keeps me updated\u2014no secrets, just learning to balance love for both. That night taught me the power of simply being there. Sometimes, staying close means just lying beside them and not moving.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1027\">Would you do that too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I thought I was a good dad\u2014present and steady. Liana\u2019s mom, Dana, left when Liana was six to \u201cfind herself.\u201d I didn\u2019t chase her; instead, I focused on being there for Liana. Now twelve, Liana\u2019s growing up fast and tough. One night, she got sick and curled up on the bathroom floor, clutching &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","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\/4941","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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}