“Why bring it out now?”
Carol looked at me.
“I’ve always had it.”
“Because Alma deserves to know something.”
My stomach tightened.
“What?” I squeaked.
My mother-in-law (MIL) sat down.
“I’ve been keeping something from you since your wedding.”
“Alma deserves to know something.”
***
Three hours earlier, I was standing in our bedroom, wondering whether visiting Carol was a mistake.
“Do you think she’ll be happy for us?” I asked Daniel as we got into the car.
“I hope so,” he said. “I’d like her to know.”
We were expecting our first child, and Daniel wanted his mother to hear the news from us.
“I’d like her to know.”
My husband was thrilled.
He’d already started comparing strollers and reading books about becoming a father.
But telling his mother was complicated.
Carol and I hadn’t spoken since Thanksgiving two years earlier.
Telling his mother was complicated.
She’d criticized my job and our marriage for years.
