When I Returned from the Hospital with Our Newborn, My Husband Had Changed the Locks – Twenty Hours Later, He Showed Up, Pounding and Screaming

I saw you go through labor.”

He wiped his eyes.

“And I felt useless. Like I hadn’t done anything. Like you’d given everything, and I’d just… stood there.

This was the only thing I could give back. The only way I could show you that I see how much you sacrificed.”

He looked at me, tears streaming down his face.

“I figured you’d go to Vanessa’s since she’s close by. She already knew about my plan.

I told myself it’d just be one night. But I didn’t stop to think about how it would feel for you… how scared you must’ve been.”

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