I truly believed marrying my father-in-law was the only way to keep my children from being taken from me. At that point, I was thirty, worn down, and barely holding myself together. My son Jonathan was seven. My daughter Lila was five. After my marriage to Sean collapsed, they were the only part of my life that still felt solid. When Sean and I first got together, he made everything sound safe. He told me I wouldn’t have to worry anymore, that he would provide, that staying home with the kids was what a real family looked like. I believed...
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