Mom Called Me Damaged at My Sister’s Baby Shower

have been beautiful too.”

He turned toward me.

That truth had taken years to settle fully inside me.

My children were not proof of my worth.

They were people I loved.

My marriage was not redemption for Preston’s rejection.

It was partnership.

My fertility was not a verdict overturned.

It was one chapter in a much larger life.

If I had never had children, my continue reading …