My Husband Threatened My Ability to Have Children

Audrey Zetta
4 min readMar 18, 2019

One St. Patrick’s Day he took away my choices

Photo by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash

Intimate partner abuse does not always look like it does on TV. It is not always people who have been drinking or who punch their spouse on Superbowl Sunday. It’s not confined to a lower socio-economic bracket. Abuse can be a quiet threat, as it was for me, a few years ago on March 17.

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Audrey Zetta

Feminist, dirty liberal, thoughtful absurdist. I store miracles in words.