Third Child, Wasn't Mine

Summary

To run away with me, my girlfriend, Sarah, agreed to have a child with her childhood friend, Liam, to carry on his family line.

After their first son was born, she told me the baby was too young to be without his mother. She asked me to wait until he was three.

Three years passed. Then she said his family wanted a daughter to make the family "complete." She asked me to wait a little longer.

I waited and waited. I watched 1,460 sunrises and sunsets over Mount Rainier.

When I finally thought we could leave, I found she had scheduled a vasectomy for me.