My Secret Husband

I couldn’t appease my mother by marrying my boyfriend — mostly, because I already had

Vivian McInerny
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJun 28, 2019

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“He seems so nice,” she said while I was visiting. “Why doesn’t he ask you to marry him?”

“Mom,” I groaned. “I’m not a Barbie doll sitting around hoping Ken will pop the question. We’re equal partners. If we want to marry, we’ll decide together to marry.”

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Vivian McInerny
Human Parts

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.