La vida

**Diary Entry** Olive went into labour unexpectedly—premature, in her eighth month. The doctors acted

Long ago, I often caught myself wondering how I ever allowed it—how I could have married a man who, even

My son won’t speak to me anymore… and I don’t know when he became a stranger to me. I have only one son.

My mother-in-law insists on running our household, and my husband stays silent. I can’

I married a mama’s boy. Now, everything in this house must be “just like Mum’s”

The bitterness rests heavily on my heart, not at my children—no—but at myself for how I raised them.

I married a mummy’s boy. And now, everything in this house has to be “just like Mum does it”

We had to change the locks to stop my mother-in-law from treating our flat like her own. My husband and

“Don’t worry, there’s still time to find my son a proper girl!” declared the mother-in-law.

**Diary Entry – 15th March** I can’t believe I let this happen. How did I miss it? Behind his polished