Like Sofia Vergara, my ex and I signed paperwork to give us equal rights our frozen embryos. After we broke up, he wanted to dictate when I could parent
Eight years ago, I unthinkingly gave a man – who I loved at the time – the ultimate right to decide whether or not I would become a mother. I thought, and was encouraged to believe, that what I was doing was fair to him; what it became was a way for him to control the course of my life long after I’d decided he no longer deserved to be a part of it.
In June 2007, my long-distance boyfriend decided to leave a teaching post in Korea six months early, travel around Southeast Asia for a bit and finally return to share to my Chicago bungalow. At the end of July – with him back in the states, but not by my side – a team of surgeons removed a golf-ball sized tumor from my back and I prepared to start aggressive chemotherapy treatment for extraosseous Ewing’s Sarcoma (a rare bone cancer that, in my case, was found in soft tissue) in August.
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