My Husband Came Home to an Empty Nursery

2: said if I left, no judge would give a baby to a woman with “episodes.”

Episodes.

That was his word for any time I cried.

I never told Marlene about the folder.

I never told anybody.

But while I was in ICU and the nurses were asking questions I was too drugged to answer, Marlene went back to the house with a police officer to get clothes for the baby.continue reading …