His Friend Asked Him To Pretend To Be Her Baby’s Father So That Her Family Will Keep Financially Supporting Her

Chip Chick |

Jun 14, 2023

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Becoming a mother at a young age can be very frightening, especially if you’re going to be a single parent.

One man is at a loss for what to do after his young, pregnant friend asked him to pretend to be her baby’s father so that her family will continue financially supporting her.

He’s 20 years old and has a 21-year-old friend from college who’s pregnant. Unfortunately, the baby’s father is someone she met on a dating app who ghosted and blocked her on all platforms after she told him she was pregnant.

His friend’s parents were not happy to hear about this unexpected pregnancy and aren’t aware of who the baby’s father is. However, they told her that they expect him to be involved.

“One of the stipulations that her stepfather had if he was to support her and the child financially was that the father had to be involved to some extent with expenses,” he explained.

“Nobody is forcing her to marry him or be in a relationship with him, but her family does not want her to be a single parent.”

His friend can’t afford to be cut off financially because she wants to finish school and has no job. So, she’s been lying to her parents and telling them she speaks to her baby’s father semi-regularly.

She got away with flying under the radar until now because her parents are throwing a gender reveal party for her and are insisting on seeing the baby’s father there.

His friend has been panicking to find someone that could lie and say they’re her baby’s father for the party to please her parents.

vpavlyuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

There are only two guys in his friend group, including him. The other is openly gay, and his friend’s parents know that. So, she recently asked him if he’d be willing to attend the gender reveal party and tell her parents he’s her baby’s father.

He doesn’t feel comfortable with this for several reasons. He has no idea how long he’d have to keep up the lie and hates the idea of his family hearing about it and thinking he got a girl pregnant without telling them.

“I explained this to her the next time I saw her, and she looked disappointed but agreed it was up to me,” he said.

Unfortunately, instead of respecting his boundaries, his friend group has been bombarding him for three weeks, telling him how stressed his friend is and that he’s let her down.

His friend has tried to convince her that he would only have to pretend to be the baby’s father for one day, but he doubts that and worries about what the lie could spiral into.

“She was almost crying, confessing she had no one else to ask and begging me to reconsider,” he recalled.

“I feel awful about it, but know I’ll just be stressed about it getting out somehow.”

Is he right to refuse to lie for his friend?

You can read the original post on Reddit here.

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