My mother-in-law put her shoulder into my ribs at my own gender reveal so she could reach my husband first. I opened my arms and said four words in her ear.

Rhys and I did eleven months with somebody, which was my idea and which I suggested for the wrong reason — I wanted somebody professional to agree with me — and which turned out to be almost entirely about me.

Because the thing that came out of it, in about the seventh month, is the ledger.

I knew what his mother had offered him in 2021, and I said nothing for four years, and I let my husband go on defending her to me in the belief that I had let it go.

He had not been protecting her from me. He had been protecting me from having to hold it.

And I had been holding it the entire time and never told him, which meant that for four years he was in a conversation he did not know he was in.

Stand behind Rhys, Noor — the photographs need to look right.

She said that on my own lawn, taking the cannon out of my hand at my own reveal, in front of thirty people, and not one of them said anything.

And the photographs do look right. I have seen them. There are four hundred and eleven of them and the photographer she chose was excellent.

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