I Surrogated Twice for My Husband to Pay His Mom’s Debt — Then He Left, Saying I Was No Longer Beautiful

And I kept quiet. Because love asks you to hold your tongue. Until it doesn’t.

I never fought Hicks on it. Burke was his mother. And I understood loyalty. But after years of missing out, I started to wonder if we were still living our life, or hers.

Then, one night while I was folding laundry on the couch, my husband walked into the room. He stood there for a moment, watching me. His face was calm, almost too calm, the way it gets when he’s been rehearsing something in his head.

“I was talking to Mike at work,” he began, easing into the conversation like it was nothing. “And he mentioned that his cousin was a surrogate. She made about $60,000. Just like that. She just carried the baby and gave birth. That was it.”

“Okay… and?” I asked, still folding Nux’s tiny jeans. I wasn’t sure if I’d even heard him correctly.Continue reading…