{"id":6570,"date":"2025-05-22T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:22:20","slug":"we-adopted-a-4-year-old-girl-just-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6570","title":{"rendered":"We Adopted a 4-Year-Old Girl \u2014 Just a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of infertility, Simon and Claire finally adopt a little girl named Sophie. From the moment she runs into Simon\u2019s arms, he knows she\u2019s his daughter. But weeks later, Claire changes. She grows distant, resentful\u2014then demands they return Sophie. A spilled-paint accident on her wedding dress becomes the breaking point. Claire gives Simon an ultimatum:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer or me.\u201dSimon chooses Sophie.Claire leaves.Months later, Claire tries to return, claiming she was overwhelmed and ready to fix things. But Simon has seen too much\u2014heard Sophie cry for her, felt her pain.He tells Claire the truth: \u201cYou didn\u2019t just leave me. You left her. And I won\u2019t let you hurt her again.\u201dA year later, Sophie still carries scars. But she\u2019s healing. Laughing. Trusting. And every night,<\/p>\n<p>when she asks if Simon will ever leave, his answer is always the same:\u201dNever.\u201dBecause love, real love, doesn\u2019t walk away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of infertility, Simon and Claire finally adopt a little girl named Sophie. From the moment she runs into Simon\u2019s arms, he knows she\u2019s his daughter. But weeks later, Claire changes. She grows distant, resentful\u2014then demands they return Sophie. A spilled-paint accident on her wedding dress becomes the breaking point. Claire gives Simon an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6570","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\/6570","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=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}