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

“Yes.”

She looked at me.

“Do not make the mistake of believing Brandon missing the birth automatically determines custody.”

“I know.”

“Good.”

“And do not let your father’s resources turn this into a war of financial exhaustion.”

That landed.

Dad could bury Brandon in lawyers without feeling the cost.