{"id":34987,"date":"2026-09-24T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:45:42","slug":"i-surprised-my-husband-at-work-then-his-colleague-asked-he-hasnt-told-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34987","title":{"rendered":"I Surprised My Husband at Work \u2014 Then His Colleague Asked, \u201cHe Hasn\u2019t Told You?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>I Surprised My Husband at the Hospital\u2014Then His Colleague Started Crying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My husband Ben was a brilliant surgeon, but lately he was barely home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">He missed Thanksgiving, our anniversary, and even our daughter\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So one morning, I packed his favorite lunch, added apple pie, and wrote:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to take care of everyone. Let me have a turn.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I went to surprise him at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But the moment his colleague Arnold saw me, his face went pale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s Ben?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Arnold looked at me with tears in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then he whispered:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cHe hasn\u2019t told you anything, has he?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My heart dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Because Ben had been making plans without me\u2014and I was about to discover exactly what he had been hiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Surprised My Husband at the Hospital\u2014Then His Colleague Started Crying My husband Ben was a brilliant surgeon, but lately he was barely home. He missed Thanksgiving, our anniversary, and even our daughter\u2019s birthday. So one morning, I packed his favorite lunch, added apple pie, and wrote: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to take care of everyone&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34987\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I Surprised My Husband at Work \u2014 Then His Colleague Asked, \u201cHe Hasn\u2019t Told You?\u201d&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34989,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions\/34989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}