Much later, when I was going on my first outing with my husband’s parents after we started dating, my mom insisted that I wear a skirt. I wanted to wear dress pants. She kept insisting, I kept resisting. When I awoke, she had taken all the pants out of my room—even my pajama pants—and laid out an outfit with a skirt. I was 19. By the way, his mom? Wearing goddamn pants!