I was holding my two-month-old daughter when I noticed a code lock hanging from our refrigerator.<\/p>\n
At first, I thought it was a joke.<\/p>\n
Then my husband smiled and said, \u201cI\u2019m finally taking control of what you eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had just given birth after years of fertility treatments, injections, heartbreak, and exhaustion. My body had carried our daughter into this world, but suddenly Ryan treated me like a problem that needed fixing.<\/p>\n
If I wanted yogurt, I had to ask.
\nIf I wanted leftovers, I had to ask.
\nIf I wanted food while breastfeeding our baby, I had to stand there while he unlocked the fridge and watched what I took.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, he ate burgers and fries in front of me while lecturing me about \u201cdiscipline.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then his mother came over.<\/p>\n
The second she saw the lock, she went silent. Later, after feeding me homemade pie while I cried on the couch, she made a few phone calls.<\/p>\n
The next morning, Ryan walked outside and nearly lost his soul.<\/p>\n
His precious sports car had a steering wheel lock, a breathalyzer starter, and giant magnets on both doors reading:
\nBABY DRIVER.<\/p>\n
Then his father, grandfather, uncles, and cousins arrived for what they called \u201can intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n
In front of everyone, Ryan had to explain why he locked food away from the woman feeding his child.<\/p>\n
By the end of the day, the fridge lock was gone.<\/p>\n
And for the first time since giving birth, my home finally felt like mine again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was holding my two-month-old daughter when I noticed a code lock hanging from our refrigerator. At first, I thought it was a joke. Then my husband smiled and said, \u201cI\u2019m finally taking control of what you eat.\u201d I had just given birth after years of fertility treatments, injections, heartbreak, and exhaustion. My body had …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}