"I didn't get pregnant to keep him with me," she says.

"If anything, it would have been safer for me to not have kids, for fear of him taking that as an excuse to run. But I finally felt ready and I wasn't afraid of what he was going to think. If he ran...that was his problem and I'd have sorted it out with him later. I did this for my daughter, not for me."

Her eyes narrow. "But you tried to nail him down, didn't you."

It's not really a question.