A Man’s Wife Said His Brother with Down Syndrome Was Too Unpredictable to Be Near Their Baby – One Night, They Heard a Scream From the Nursery and Ran In

While she went down to the car, Jamie leaned toward me.

“I like her.”

    “Good.”

“You should marry her.”

    “I like her.”

“We’ve been dating three months.”

“You’re slow.”

I married her eleven months later. For a while, the three of us were happy. Then something happened, and Claire started looking at my brother differently.

I called it an accident. Claire said she forgave him.

I wanted to believe that.

    I called it an accident.

But she got tense when he was near. She watched his hands. She started taking things from him, a bag, a dish, a glass.

    “I’ll do it.”

Jamie noticed. He never said a word.

Claire had never gone easy on him. She expected him to do things right, same as anyone. I used to think that was respect.

Then she got pregnant, and the expectation turned into fear.