My Parents Took Our Maldives Honeymoon at My Wedding and Gave It to My Sister—They Had No Idea Why the Tickets Could Never Be Hers

Partly life.

Partly because I needed time to understand whether motherhood frightened me for reasons unrelated to having a baby.

It did.

I worried I would repeat Teresa.

Then worried so hard about not repeating Teresa that I nearly created a different problem.

My therapist laughed when I said:

“What if I accidentally favor one child?”

“You have one child.”