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My Husband Insisted I Host His Friends While I Was Recovering in a Neck Brace, Until His Mother Walked Through the Door
He rolled his eyes.
I felt my hands start to shake. “I’m in pain all the time. I’m scared I’ll move wrong and make this worse.”
That was when his tone changed.
“If you don’t handle it,” he said, “don’t expect me to keep giving you money. I’m not paying for you to lie around.”

We had agreed I would take six months off. We had planned for it. It was supposed to be our money.
Suddenly, it was his.
And I was just someone he thought was doing nothing.