My Mother-in-Law Locked Me Inside While I Was 38 Weeks Pregnant — Then Returned From a Luxury Trip Paid With My Money

she could not name then and was not sure she could name afterward — not cruelty, exactly, not indifference, but something that had elements of both while being neither. Something more like the expression of a person who has made a choice they cannot articulate and are hoping no one will ask them to.