My MIL Gave Me a Necklace Made of Tiny Baby Bottles and Pacifiers Knowing I Couldn't Have Children – What My FIL Did Next Silenced the Room

Susan snapped, "I know that."

"That's exactly why I did it."

"Do you?"

"Yes."

Her voice rose.

"That's exactly why I did it."

I stared at her.

"If we could laugh about it once, maybe it wouldn't have so much power."

She gestured at the broken necklace.

"I thought if we could laugh about it once, maybe it wouldn't have so much power."

Thomas looked disgusted.

"You humiliated her in front of everyone."

Susan shook her head. "I was trying to make the subject less forbidden."

"You were trying to make yourself feel better."

Then I understood.

Not everything.

But enough.

"You weren't trying to make me feel better."

Susan opened her mouth.

I pointed at the pieces scattered across the table.

I kept going.

"You were trying to make yourself feel better."

Her face tightened.

"That's not fair."

"It is."

Susan looked less powerful than cornered by her own choices.