Moving forward, since it didn’t seem to be a top priority for any of the people it should be important to… I would put myself in charge of looking out for me.
“I see you have no plans to let up on my IUD,” I laughed. “Which I do have, by the way, in case birth control has crossed your mind any of the times we haven’t bothered with a condom.”
my mother had drilled into me that it was never, ever, my job to restore or renovate a man. She insisted that I deserved someone already whole, someone who knew enough to not go out in the water without a life jacket.
“But I have an IUD.” “Women get pregnant with IUDs every single day,” Loren said, very simply, like that wasn’t a gut-rending blow. “They are not one hundred percent effective.