My Husband Told Me to “Handle It Yourself” While I Was in Labor So He Could Stay at His Mother’s Birthday—Then I Made One Phone Call

For years, part of me wanted her punished.

Not legally.

Emotionally.

I wanted Brandon to reject her the way he had rejected me that night.

That would have felt symmetrical.

It also would have put me in the same competition she imagined from the beginning.

Mother versus wife.

Who does he choose?