{"id":4819,"date":"2025-02-07T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:51:52","slug":"after-my-husbands-best-friend-joined-us-for-dinner-our-7-year-old-daughter-stopped-talking-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4819","title":{"rendered":"After my husband\u2019s best friend joined us for dinner, our 7-year-old daughter stopped talking for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian, my husband\u2019s best friend, was more like family to us. He was the person we trusted the most \u2013 someone we could always rely on. That evening, he came over for dinner, and since my husband wasn\u2019t home yet and I needed to grab something from the store, I left my daughter with him. When I returned, nothing was the same. Emily, my daughter, stopped talking all of a sudden.<\/em><\/p>\n

Someone rang the doorbell and Emily rushed towards the door. She opened it, and there was Ryan, balancing two huge boxes of pizza in one hand and holding a bad in the other.<\/p>\n

Emily clung to his leg, waiting for him to give her a hug. Ryan handed her the beg, saying, \u201cWhere\u2019s my girl. This is for you, you are going to like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she opened it, she found a stuffed toy inside. \u201cThanks, uncle Bryan,\u201d she said, giving him yet another hug.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOh, Ryan, what would we do without you?\u201d I asked, smiling and feeling grateful for his presence in our lives.<\/p>\n

Since my husband, Tom, had still not returned from work, I asked Ryan to keep and eye on Emily while I went to the store to grab some juice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be fine,\u201d he said, and there was no reason I could ever think otherwise.<\/p>\n

However, when I returned, I saw Bryan grabbing his coat. \u201cI need to leave,\u201d he said, \u201csomething came out. Tell Tom I\u2019ll call him.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a bit strange, but I didn\u2019t think much about it.<\/h2>\n

It was only obvious that something happened while I was gone when my daughter stopped talking. She would refuse to answer my questions, didn\u2019t ask anything, she just stood there quetly.<\/p>\n

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The days turned into weeks, and Emily was still silent. We took her to a psychiatrist, but they were unable to discover the reason of her odd behavior.<\/p>\n

When she was about to return to school, she finally spoke to me. \u201cMom, are you going to leave me here forever?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

Her question surprised me. \u201cOf course not, honey, why would I do such a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, uncle Brian told me my real parents abandoned me, and now I\u2019m afraid you and dad would do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

My world collapsed. Emily was adopted, but we believed she was way too young to know that. Why would Brian tell her such a thing?<\/p>\n

My suspicions that he was the reason my daughter stopped talking turned out to be true.<\/h2>\n
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Ever since that night, he didn\u2019t reach to us, and we didn\u2019t call him either, and now I knew why.<\/p>\n

I left Emily at school and headed to Tom\u2019s office, telling him everything. He was shocked. Brian was like a brother to him.<\/p>\n

After a while, Brian sent me a message saying he wanted to talk. Despite Tom\u2019s advice not to go, I wanted to hear his explanation.<\/p>\n

We met at a cafe and Brian didn\u2019t resemble his old self. Something was very wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it Brian?\u201d I asked, with anger in my voice.<\/p>\n

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It was then that Brian told me he learned he was adopted a day before the pizza night. He was devastated and angry at his parents for keeping that a secret from him for that many years. Somehow, he felt the urge to tell Emily she was adopted too. He believed if she knew that from early age, he would spare her from suffering later on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian, it was not your truth to tell. Tom and I had a plan. We would tell her that when the time would be right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian kept apologizing, but I didn\u2019t accept his apologies.<\/h2>\n

Luckily, Emily was able to heal from the trauma. It did take time, but her trust in me and Tom returned.<\/p>\n

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Brian, my husband\u2019s best friend, was more like family to us. He was the person we trusted the most \u2013 someone we could always rely on. That evening, he came over for dinner, and since my husband wasn\u2019t home yet and I needed to grab something from the store, I left my daughter with him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}