This was a conversation about my brother and his first wife. Maybe his first wife was a mistake. I don't know. I never knew her because I ran from home as soon as I knew I could not be brought back by the police. I had to get away from the murderer.
Anyway, many years later mother was telling me HER version of the marriage. I'll skip all the nasty, judgmental stuff and get to the real hurt. My brother's wife had an ectopic pregnancy. According to mother, she was thrilled because, as she said, that made sure there were no kids involved. Seems like an typical non-thinking statement. But, it cut me to the core. Why?
It was the statement itself. She was happy no kids were involved so she believed that if it were a normal pregnancy she would have allowed the child to see life. Even though she hated this woman and wanted my brother out of the marriage, she, with her own words, told me that her pregnancy would not have been terminated.
Sadly, I'm not surprised. You see. this woman was NOT part of our family and was never accepted. So, what she did was not a reflection on mother and her family. You see, what the family did was a reflection on her and that's all she cared about. That's why my child was murdered. It would have looked bad for the family. My brother's first wife, was not family and would have been blessed with a child if that were to be.
My mother is so motivated by image it's sickening. Commiting murder to maintain image is sick, disgusting and beyond forgivable.
