And I did not say one single word to my husband.
I’ve gone over that silence a hundred times since then. And I want to tell it honestly. Because the easy version of this story makes me look a lot better than I was that night.
The easy version is that I was too stunned to speak.
I wasn’t stunned.
I knew exactly what I could say. And I knew that if I said it hard enough, Travis would walk her out.
He’s a man who does what he’s asked.
If I’d looked at him across that table and said, “You’re walking her out, and that’s the end of it,” he’d have nodded. And he’d have done it.
And then my daughter would have walked onto that gym floor on the arm of a man who was only there because his wife made him.
