She Just Found Out She’s Pregnant, But She Wants To Tell Her Family The Big News Before She Even Informs Her Partner That They’re Having A Baby Together
This 26-year-old woman recently received some amazing news: she found out that she’s currently three months pregnant, and she couldn’t be any more excited.
She only realized she was expecting three days ago when, for some reason, she had a gut feeling that she needed to take a test.
“So I bought a pregnancy test from Walgreens, which claimed I was pregnant,” she recalled.
Afterward, she headed straight to a parenting clinic– which just so happened to have an available appointment that very day. After all, she wanted to be 100% sure.
Well, at the clinic, it was confirmed that she was definitely pregnant. So, she planned to tell her partner on one of two occasions.
“On his birthday in a week, or at his early birthday lunch with his parents in four days,” she explained.
However, she was actually employed by a warehouse, and her work contract ended pretty recently. To be clear, that was perfectly fine in her eyes since she would have wound up needing to quit, anyway, given the fact that she was pregnant.
But, given the contract’s end, she had plenty of free time and had already decided to go visit her family members– who live in another state. Apparently, she hasn’t gotten to see them since November, and she really misses them.
The timing of her family trip happening right after she found out about the pregnancy, though, has presented her with a unique problem. More specifically, while she is away, she wants to tell her family about the baby– even though her partner doesn’t know about the pregnancy yet.
Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
“I know certain people hate being the last ones to be told of anything major in their life,” she clarified.
Still, her reasoning is that she most likely won’t see her family for at least a few months after this upcoming visit. She’s also unable to get her partner to join her on the family trip– where she could tell everyone in person– because he only gets three days off of work each week.
“And he prefers to use them at home since he’s an introvert. He’s not much for driving to go see me or his family,” she said.
“He’s like that uncle you only see around Christmas or Thanksgiving but never both in the same year.”
That’s why she’s in a pickle, and she really isn’t sure what to do. So now, she’s been left wondering if choosing to tell her family that she’s pregnant before she even informs her partner would be a really jerky move or not.
Do you think it’s wrong to tell your family about your pregnancy because the father of your child is even informed? How would you feel in her partner’s shoes? How do you think she should navigate this situation?
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