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She Called His Mother Mom

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My parents drove three hours to spend Thanksgiving with us. I welcomed them at the door, my heart full of warmth, only for my wife, Beth, to greet them with a polite, distant, "Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Shepard."

My parents’ joyful smiles instantly froze.

I couldn’t even count how many times we had stood in this exact, suffocating silence.

We had been married for five years, and in all that time, she had only called them "Mom" and "Dad" once. That was during our wedding vows, when the cameras were rolling and the pressure was on.

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