My Boyfriend Insisted I Shower Twice a Day—When I Finally Met His Mother, I Discovered the Disturbing Reason Why

a relief, sent me into a deeper round of self-reflection. If there was no medical explanation for Jacob’s claims, what did that say about our relationship? About the way he saw things? Or worse, about what he actually intended?

The doctor’s office, a place I had come to for refuge and answers, became the place where my doubts about Jacob’s claims first continue reading …