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When my fianc\u00e9e, Sarah, started planning our wedding, I thought the hardest part would be cake flavors \u2014 not choosing between her and my daughter.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m 45, divorced, and a proud dad to my 11-year-old, Paige. She\u2019s my world. Sarah had always acted like she adored her \u2014 until one night, while talking about the wedding, she said she didn\u2019t want Paige as a flower girl.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe doesn\u2019t fit the part,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
I thought I misheard. When I pushed, she admitted she hoped I\u2019d become a \u201choliday-visit dad\u201d after the wedding \u2014 that Paige wouldn\u2019t be around much.<\/p>\n
That was it. I ended the engagement that night. Her mother called me selfish, said I was throwing away my future for a \u201cchild who\u2019ll grow up and leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
But she was wrong. Paige is<\/em> my future.<\/p>\n When I told my daughter the wedding was off, she asked, \u201cSo it\u2019s just you and me again?\u201d<\/p>\n I smiled. \u201cYou and me, always.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re still taking the honeymoon \u2014 just the two of us. Sun, sand, and ice cream.<\/p>\n Because I can replace a fianc\u00e9e. When my fianc\u00e9e, Sarah, started planning our wedding, I thought the hardest part would be cake flavors \u2014 not choosing between her and my daughter. I\u2019m 45, divorced, and a proud dad to my 11-year-old, Paige. She\u2019s my world. Sarah had always acted like she adored her \u2014 until one night, while talking about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8207","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\/8207","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=8207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But I can never replace my daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"