After my second pregnancy and a thyroid diagnosis changed my body, I worked to feel like myself again. My husband only saw what I hadn't lost. I kept swallowing his comparisons until one family dinner forced me to decide whether protecting my marriage was worth what my sons were learning from it.
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The moment my husband looked across our dinner table at his brother's wife and said he'd be proud to take her anywhere, I knew exactly what was coming next.
Joshua smiled at Jessica in her fitted red dress, then turned to me.
Nobody laughed: not Gideon, Joshua's older brother; not Jessica, Gideon's wife and the woman Joshua had spent months comparing me to.
Not our four-year-old, Levi, who was busy pushing peas around his plate; and definitely not Jacob, our fifteen-year-old son.
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My hands shook under the table, but I didn't hide them.
My husband went on vacation before my twin C-Section — He came back shaking
"No. You wanted everybody to hear you. Finish whatever you wanted to say."
