Things are going along smoothly. There’s a sizable amount in the investment account, two good incomes and some money in the bank. It’s time to talk about starting a family.
Many modern couples start with little or nothing. Keen to get ahead, they install a long-term plan in their relationship to get something in the bank before raising children—like buying a home—and building a financial nest egg. It’s a mini-corporation readying itself for a long-term goal investment.
Biology dictates priority. Social change has us believing in many things, but a male doesn’t have a uterus. Some people get angry about this seemingly unfair arrangement.
My wife was one of them.
She was angry over this inequality. She never wanted to be male but hated the responsibility of being a female. Giving birth wasn’t right. Men never had to do that! Why was it only the responsibility of females to bear children? Males got it so easy!
Samantha was conflicted. She wanted womanhood AND motherhood but without pregnancy or a sexual encounter. It was to be a brief and effortless process that passed without interrupting her career and goals.
Before you think that’s an absurd belief, there’s more weird stuff attached.
Our financial nest egg was ready. We got a new car with special baby restraints. We took vitamins, exercised daily, and removed alcohol from our diets. Coffee was out, too. Sweets and sweet drinks were off the list. That’s not the weird stuff. It’s coming.
A few weeks passed, and she told me not to rush her. Every few weeks, I did the same. Another eight and a half months passed, and I looked into her eyes again. “Do you want this or not?”
She said she was 100% committed to it. She wanted a baby. It was true. She did the research and mapped out the whole dieting and exercising thing, except the sex part. Sex was always a contentious issue. She never figured out where it fitted into the process.
Bizarre, right?
There’s more to the story (there always is), and I’m happy to say that after another month passed, we separated and filed for divorce.
That’s about the time I set about writing a novel about the moments surrounding those nine stress-filled months (and how we managed to last long without intimacy before it). There was so much to tell, and I felt that fiction was a great place to bury the truth.
You can read it all in my novel SEETHINGS. I promise the story will shock and horrify. It’s free for a limited time.
-Michael Forman (Author of SEETHINGS)
“Forman’s writing style is artful, with the protagonist Mitchell’s warped thought processes masterfully exposed. The author has a powerful and vivid command of language and his word pictures are stark and disturbingly real.”
– Linda J Bettenay, author of ‘Secrets Mothers Keep’ and ‘Wishes For Starlight’.
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