My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We’ve tried for a child for over 7 of them. Endless doctor visits, fertility treatments, and heartbreaks. Turns out I’m infertile. We grieved that together, or at least I thought we did.
And here she is. His childhood best friend, Leah (34F). She’s been around our entire marriage. I never liked how close they were, but I respected their history. Until now.
Leah got pregnant after a short relationship with a guy who bailed the moment she told him. Now, weeks from her due date, she asked my husband to be her birth partner. That alone already made me feel weird, but then came the real kicker: she wants him to be on the birth certificate.
As the baby’s father. Because “he’s the closest thing to a dad the baby will have” and “he doesn’t have kids of his own anyway, so what’s the big deal?”
