{"id":5368,"date":"2025-05-06T23:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:47:55","slug":"was-i-wrong-to-be-upset-my-70-year-old-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5368","title":{"rendered":"Was I Wrong to Be Upset? My 70-Year-Old Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it wrong for me to feel upset that my 70-year-old mother spent $1,800 on a designer dress instead of contributing to her grandson\u2019s college fund?<br \/>\nShe just turned 70 and treated herself to a pricey dress, mainly to wear to book club meetings and social events. At the same time, my son is about to head off to college, and any financial support would go a long way. This behavior feels unlike her\u2014she\u2019s always been someone who puts family first. When I asked why she made the purchase, she told me, \u201cI\u2019ve got a date tonight.\u201d I was stunned and said, \u201cBut what if Dad finds out?\u201d She snapped back at me and said\u2026(check in first comment\ud83d\udc47)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it wrong for me to feel upset that my 70-year-old mother spent $1,800 on a designer dress instead of contributing to her grandson\u2019s college fund? She&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}