“I was terrified.”
She studied me.
“And what changed?”
I looked down at my daughters.
“Nothing changed about them.”
Then I looked at Brian.
“Everything changed about what I knew.”
The social worker nodded slowly.
The next several days were the hardest of my life.
I barely slept.
I answered questions from social workers, doctors, counselors, and hospital administrators.
Locate Medical Centers
Brian admitted that he had hidden the prenatal information from me.
He kept saying he had done it because he loved me.
Maybe he had.
But love without trust can become its own kind of betrayal.
I told him I didn’t know whether our marriage would survive.
Marriage
What I did know was that my daughters would not pay the price for the choices we had made.
