I could have cried with all my strength but neither my mother nor my father would have been able to hear. They were both deaf and mute.
I married yichus — and expectations. The world is a shtender and a gemara, and what more could you need or possibly want?
The ripple effect of two singles showing up at a Shabbos geared for families and married couples
One thing I learned right away was that if this was to work — and I believed it could — then honesty was crucial. I didn’t want to pretend everything was fine. I didn’t want to indulge in apologetics
My mother-in-law is tall and big boned, with broad shoulders. Looking at her, I’ve always thought that if I threw a rope or two around this green-and-blue globe we live on and hung it over her arms, she’d take one heave and pull it right along after her, without even letting go of her pocketbook.
But the comments hurt. They delegitimized the way of life I had chosen. They filled me with anger, and they rocked my confidence.
