My husband is seven years younger than me, and for the first few years of our marriage, his mother never let me forget it.

According to my mother-in-law, Linda, I had “trapped” her precious son with a pregnancy.Never mind that Daniel and I had already been dating for nearly three years before I got pregnant. Never mind that we were both adults with stable jobs and our own apartment. In Linda’s eyes, I was the older woman who had stolen her son’s youth.