Not having a choice about family made it worse, made her shoulders edgy and her gaze go anywhere but to Bruce, because they were not discussing family, not while she was this sober. "Families can break, with enough hurt," she said, as if it was just an argument about their current situation and not something that had very long roots.
"I honestly fail to see the essential difference between the two." Both required careful handling and specialized training, had the potential to end and destroy lives, and involved some really messy cleanup if they blew up in your face. And things she might have to deal with whether she wanted to be involved or not, just by proximity and spheres of influence. "But if I keep not wanting and not being interested in what Baby Wayne is doing in Month whatever--" which kept forcing them to be just parents, and maybe he was right and they would want some adult conversation now and again so they didn't scream with frustration themselves. "Withdrawn," she said.
The way they made it sound, things would be just perfect, and nothing would essentially change at all, except for the addition of a small person to their gatherings. And that made Maria very suspicious, because nothing with that tidy of a plan ever survived contact with reality, just on principle. Particularly not when their lives were already as complicated as they were, when they were trying to figure out if they could still risk their lives at night and live for their child during the day, and never mind a friend who consistently wouldn't want to hold - "Her? Then...you know?" she asked, curious at Bruce's pronouns in spite of herself, looking between the two of them.
There was a lot involved with this, but at least her part, right now, as they explained all they expected of her, was simple. "Then...now what?" she asked. "I mean, the entire point of these was so that I wasn't drinking alone, but that's sorta not possible for the immediate future," she added dryly as she finally picked up her glass and took a healthy sip of the refill, and the top-off. "Let me guess: Monopoly? Maybe a wild game of Pictionary? Can he draw?" she had to ask Dinah. He did everything else, but there was always a first time.