My mother-in-law shaved my head while I slept on the very night the United States Army promoted me into one of the most important commands of my career.
The captain hesitated. “He said his wife had been unstable since receiving a promotion. He said he needed to bring you home before you embarrassed the Army.”
For one wild second, I almost laughed.
Unstable.
That was the word men reached for when a woman stopped accepting humiliation as love.
