11/07/2025
My husband gave me a cruel order about my pregnancy! He told me to 'stop talking about it.' He never imagined Iâd actually obey him... and his reaction when I did was priceless...//...The two pink lines were a miracle. Not a faint, 'maybe-it's-a-shadow' line, but a vibrant, undeniable 'yes.' After eight years of marriage and three long, brutal years of fertility treatments, 'yes' was the only word I wanted to hear. I thought Tom, my husband, wanted it just as badly. We had held hands through every negative test, every failed IUI. This was supposed to be our victory.
But our victory felt... one-sided.
When I brought home paint swatches for the nurseryâcolors Iâd dreamed of for yearsâTom, my husband, barely glanced up from his phone. "Whatever you like, babe," heâd murmured. When I suggested baby names weâd once loved, heâd just grunt. "We have time."
A cold dread, sharper than any needle from the clinic, began to prickle at my heart. This wasn't the man who'd cried with me last year when the doctor said our chances were "diminishing." Something was wrong.
The dread finally shattered our breakfast on a Tuesday morning. The morning sickness had arrived with a vengeance, and I was sitting at the table, nibbling on the only thing I could stomachâa dry cracker. I tried to make light of it, to bridge the growing chasm between us.
"This baby is already a little handful," I said, managing a weak smile. "I'm not sure my stomachâ"
Tom, my husband's, coffee mug slammed onto the granite countertop. The sound made me jump, the hot liquid sloshing over the rim.
"God, can you just stop?" he snapped, his voice a low growl Iâd never heard before.
I froze, the cracker halfway to my mouth. "Stop... stop what?"
"Stop talking about it." His eyes were cold, unfamiliar. "I'm trying to eat. I am so sick of hearing about your stupid, gross pregnancy symptoms. All you talk about is being pregnant. Youâve become boring... and gross."
The word hung in the air, heavy and toxic: Gross.
This was the baby weâd prayed for. The baby weâd spent a fortune and endless tears trying to conceive. And he found it... gross.
He wasn't finished. "Just stop talking about it completely," he ordered.
I stared at him, my heart feeling like it had stopped beating. The shock was so profound it left no room for tears, only a sudden, icy clarity. He wanted me to stop talking about it.
I placed the cracker back on the napkin. I looked at this man, this stranger, and made a decision.
"Okay," I said, my voice perfectly level. "I won't mention the pregnancy again."
Tom, my husband, looked visibly relieved, his shoulders slumping as he picked up his phone. He thought he'd won. He thought he'd silenced a temporary inconvenience. What he didn't understand, what he couldn't possibly comprehend in that moment, was that he wasn't just ending a conversation. He was setting a rule. A rule I would follow to the letter.
And by the time he finally understood the price of his command, by the time he was desperateâbeggingâme to break it, it would be far, far too late...
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