Henry is tired of being the middleman between his wife and her estranged parents. After fifteen years, he finally puts his foot down and asks for the actual reason for their breakdown. But when he discovers the truth \u2014 everything changes.<\/p>\n
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I understand complex family dynamics. I know that issues rise to the surface, fester, and create something ugly. When my wife, Candace, disowned her family, I had no choice but to support her.<\/p>\n
Except that it\u2019s been fifteen years, and she hasn\u2019t said a word to them. And she won\u2019t tell me why.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMom said that I can\u2019t go to Grandma\u2019s house,\u201d our son, Lucas, told me. \u201cGrandpa is helping me with an assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had gotten so used to this \u2014 Candace always saying no, while Lucas just wanted to be with his grandparents \u2014 who doted on him.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ll handle it,\u201d I said to him.<\/p>\n
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I took Lucas to his grandparents and then returned home to find Candace making waffles.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI didn\u2019t want you to take him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour parents love Lucas. I don\u2019t see why he shouldn\u2019t spend time with them. You have a problem with them, but that doesn\u2019t mean he should.\u201d<\/p>\n
Candace looked at me with her big blue eyes and blinked slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey mean nothing to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t understand what had gone wrong. When Candace was pregnant with Lucas, her parents were always at our house. Her mother cooked everything she could dream of, and her father did whatever she asked.<\/p>\n
They were inseparable and had even moved in with us for the week leading up to Lucas\u2019s due date. But then Candace gave birth, and everything changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCandace,\u201d I said, watching her dig into her waffles. \u201cTell me what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued to chew, avoiding eye contact.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me, or I\u2019m going to file for divorce. I can\u2019t live a life based on lies.\u201d<\/p>\n
She dropped her fork to the counter and marched out of the kitchen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want the truth, Henry?\u201d she said as she walked. \u201cHere\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went into our study and pulled out a thick file stuffed between old encyclopedias \u2014 the collection that her father bought on request.<\/p>\n
She tossed the file to me and walked out.<\/p>\n
I stood there, hunched over my desk, paging through a labyrinth of documents, medical records, and a handwritten note.<\/p>\n
Reading it, I felt like the earth had fallen off its axis.<\/p>\n
Long story short:<\/p>\n
Candace\u2019s parents were adamant about having a grandson. They needed us to have a baby boy so that they could sign off their businesses and wealth to him \u2014 something that they had refused to do for Candace.<\/p>\n
Candace\u2019s parents are powerful people, so it was no surprise to realize that they had gotten what they planned. It turns out that Candace had given birth to a baby girl, but when her parents found out that we had a girl, they orchestrated a switch, giving us Lucas \u2014 our son in every sense of the word, except biological.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
I went to the kitchen, and Candace stood at the sink, her eyes glazed over.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey got the nurse fired,\u201d she said. \u201cAll that\u2019s left of her is that handwritten note telling me the truth. And then she disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
I poured myself a drink. I didn\u2019t know where to begin comprehending anything I had just discovered.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it\u2019s not just a feud, Henry. It\u2019s pain. It\u2019s survival,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Then, we sat in the living room, and Candace told me how she wanted to tell me everything but couldn\u2019t live with the thought that I wouldn\u2019t accept Lucas as our own.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a biological daughter out there,\u201d she said sadly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs this why your mother persuaded you not to find out the sex of the baby?\u201d I asked. My sister wanted to plan an elaborate gender reveal for us \u2014 but Candace\u2019s mother had refused.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
We\u2019re a few months into DNA tests \u2014 confirming that Lucas isn\u2019t our biological son. We also threatened to sue the hospital if they didn\u2019t release the identification of our daughter.<\/p>\n
Candace, Lucas, and I have met with the other family and our daughter. She\u2019s a lovely girl named Darcy, with Candace\u2019s eye color and my sandy brown hair.<\/p>\n
As for Candace\u2019s parents? They have morphed into specters of a past that we desperately want to forget. Legal battles wage \u2014 I told Candace I want to fight them for everything they\u2019re worth.<\/p>\n
But that aside, both families are focusing on healing and rebuilding. We\u2019ve told the kids the truth \u2014 because Candace believed that if we dig deeper, only the truth would help us.<\/p>\n
The kids are doing well with the news. And we\u2019ve seen the family a few times. Lucas seems to be grateful that we exposed him to the reality of the situation rather than hiding it from him. He and Darcy also get along really well.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m currently navigating life through Candace\u2019s eyes and wondering how she has lived with this pain for so long. But she insists that the only reason she managed this long is because of Lucas and what a shining light he was.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
If you were in our shoes, what would you have done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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