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

Preserve records before emotion makes decisions.

Not because I had already decided on divorce.

Because clarity begins with facts.

PART 9 — HOME

Dad brought us home two days later.

Mrs.

Alvarez had stocked the refrigerator.

My father had somehow learned how to install the infant car seat correctly after watching three videos and calling the manufacturer’s support line.

That image almost made me laugh.

At home, he cooked eggs badly.