MY HUSBAND SPENT 10 YEARS SAYING HE NEVER WANTED KIDS — THEN I FOUND A CONTRACT FOR MY UNBORN BABY.
At first, I thought he might eventually change his mind.
Eventually, I stopped hoping for that entirely, because every time children came up in conversation, Thatcher looked at me like I was asking him to hand over his entire life without warning.
So when I found out I was pregnant at thirty-eight, I locked myself in the bathroom and cried for nearly an hour.
Not because I was unhappy.
Because I’d spent ten years carefully training myself not to want this too much, and some part of me had apparently never fully succeeded.
