My husband’s mother hated me right from the start. She wanted my husband to marry his ex and blamed me for making my husband leave his ex. She stood against our marriage and never said a word to me even when it became very obvious that we were going to marry.

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She softened a little during my wedding, but after marriage, she took the back seat. Three years later, no child. I’m not the kind of girl to blame anyone for my woes. We’ve been to the hospital, and they told us all is well. They’ve given us some prescriptions to help us.

Out of nowhere, my mother-in-law came to visit with herbal medicine, telling me it is so potent I wouldn’t see my period the day I started taking it. “Your barrenness would disappear the day you start taking this.”

I appreciated her concern, but I told myself I would never take it. She stayed with us for days. She kept checking on me to see if I had started taking it. I told her I was on drugs that did not allow me to take another medicine until I was done.

She pushed. I still did not take the herbs. She said, “It’s because of this stubbornness that you are where you are now. Take it and get pregnant. You’re here taking what will not help you.”

She’s gone, but I don’t know what she told my husband to convince him. My husband has suddenly become the ambassador for the herbs his mother brought. I woke up and he had cooked and served it for me to take. I told him, “Did you hear what the doctor said? That we are both fine?”

“Then why are you not pregnant?” he screamed.

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I’m getting scared. My husband didn’t used to get worried about pregnancy, but since his mother left, he’s all about pregnancy and forcing me to take the herbs his mother brought.

If you were in my shoes and experienced what his mother put me through before marriage and after marriage, would you trust her enough to drink herbal medicine she says can make me conceive immediately? She even called me barren. Who told her I was a barren woman?

Do you think I can trust her this much to drink from her hands?

—Rose

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