My husband told me to stay upstairs during his promotion dinner because I wasn’t “back in shape” three weeks after giving birth to twins — I agreed, but he had no idea what I’d left beside his plate

He looked at me as though I had suggested serving cereal.

“This promotion could change everything for us, Celia. I need tonight to feel personal. I need it to look like we have things together.”

We.

That word should have warned me.

While Brett spent Friday at the office, I cleaned our house between feedings.

I changed the guest towels.

I wiped fingerprints from the hallway mirror.