My Mom Called Asking When I Was Coming Back for the Baby Until I Realized Mine Was Already With Me

that I no longer needed him to understand.

I only needed him stopped.

I looked at him and said, “No.”

One word.

He stared. “What?”

“No,” I said again. “I’m not explaining for you. I’m not softening this. I’m not fixing what you broke.”

His mouth tightened. “You’re really going to do this to me?”

Even then. Even there. He still experienced consequences as continue reading …