At 30,000 Feet, I Watched My Wife Crawl Across the Floor With Both Legs in Casts While My Mother Hid Her Crutches—Then I Noticed What Was Recording Behind Them

This deserves its own part.

Not because Clara suddenly became pregnant.

She didn’t.

Not because we adopted.

We didn’t.

We decided our marriage did not require a child to become complete.

Mom had spent years treating fertility as public family property.

Therapy helped us recognize we had started doing the same to ourselves.