{"id":24524,"date":"2025-07-25T13:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24524"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:48:17","slug":"24524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24524","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The control started small. He didn\u2019t like some of my friends. He wanted me to stay home more. When I got pregnant with Zaden, things got worse. I stopped working. He said he\u2019d take care of everything, but everything came with a cost: my independence, my voice, my peace. By the time Zaden was a toddler, I barely recognized myself. I wasn\u2019t allowed a debit card or to drive without checking in.<\/p>\n<p>The final straw came one night when Zaden, just five, spilled juice on the carpet. Damian stood over him, yelling so loud the walls shook. I stepped in between them, shaking, and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t yell at him like that.\u201d Damian turned to me with that look in his eyes I\u2019d seen too many times. That night, I packed a backpack, took my son, and left.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed at my mother\u2019s before I found a tiny one-bedroom apartment. I picked up a part-time job at the library and cleaned offices at night. It was hard, but we were free. And more than anything, Zaden was safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24522\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The control started small. He didn\u2019t like some of my friends. He wanted me to stay home more. When I got pregnant with Zaden, things got worse. I stopped working. He said he\u2019d take care of everything, but everything came with a cost: my independence, my voice, my peace. By the time Zaden was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24524\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24526,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24524\/revisions\/24526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}