After 5 Years of Planning a Family Together, I Discovered My Husband Had Never Wanted Children – So I Invited His Entire Family to Dinner and Handed Him a Gift Box He Never Expected
"It came from me. I need a yes or no."
He closed the laptop.
"You've been under a lot of pressure, Shan."
"Where did that come from?"
"That's not an answer. Did you ever want them?"
His jaw tightened.
"Why does every conversation turn into an interrogation?"
"Maybe we need to stop making our entire marriage about babies."
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That morning, he'd promised we were in this together.
Now he spoke as though the future we'd planned had always belonged to me alone.
"Did you ever want them?"
I nodded.
"That was an answer."
Then I walked upstairs.
He didn't follow.
***
The next morning, Misha called while I sat in my car outside work.
Misha, Mason's direct and practical older sister, rarely missed an evasion.
"That was an answer."
"I wanted to check on you, Shan," she said.
"Why?"
"Mason said you were starting fertility treatment, but he told us to give you space."
"What treatment?"
Silence followed.
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"He said the doctors hadn't given you much hope."
"I'm not receiving treatment. Can you meet me?"
"Mason said you were starting fertility treatment."
***
Twenty minutes later, Misha sat across from me in a quiet booth.
"What happened?"
"What exactly has Mason told you about me?"
Her expression changed.
"At Christmas, he said you were starting treatment after getting difficult medical news."
"What else?"
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