My Mother's Jealousy Had A Name: Me

Synopsis

Over Christmas Eve dinner, I happily announced that I was pregnant. My mother immediately chimed in, "Eric, let me find you a young, lively maid. "Claire has always been lazy, and now that she's pregnant, she'll be even more useless. "With a young girl around, she can handle the housework and take care of your physical needs so you don't have to suffer while Claire is expecting." My husband nearly choked on his food. I put down my fork, annoyed. I said, "Mom, what kind of joke is that?" My mother gave me a dark, sidelong glare. She said, "I'm not joking. What man stays faithful during his wife's pregnancy? "When I was pregnant with you, your father was fooling around behind my back. All men cheat, so why should your husband be any different?" A surge of anger rose in my chest. Just because her husband had cheated, why on earth did she think mine would do the same?