CHAPTER 34
It’s often the wives who catch baby fever first, but things worked backwards for us. Even before our wedding day, we both knew that Chris wanted children more than I did. As a young, optimistic bride-to-be, I felt so full and complete in my love for my husband I never understood the need to invite another living being into our familial bliss.
Then after the wedding, after the powerful bonds of Chris’s anger reared their ugly head, I couldn’t fathom subjecting an innocent child to that degree of volatility.
But Chris came from a rather large family. (In spite of his parents’ pure hatred for one another, they managed to produce four children). And once you had gotten him so involved in that Truth Warriors movement with their somewhat rigid concept of biblical masculinity, he gr
