Sadly, cheating is something that happens in lots of relationships. But this next story takes it to a whole new level — it involves a woman who cheated on her boyfriend, then got pregnant.
The jilted partner posted about it on the r/TrueOffMyChest subreddit, with the title, “My girlfriend just gave birth to our first child. I know I’m not the biological father and I revealed I knew as soon as she gave birth.”
And his story, which went viral with more than 21,000 upvotes, is pretty heartbreaking to read.
The man, who didn’t give his name, said that he found out his girlfriend was cheating when she was six months pregnant.
A guy he called “Bryan” approached him at his job and asked if he was “Sarah’s” boyfriend. (He used pseudonyms to hide the identities of everyone involved.)
Bryan confessed that he’d been sleeping with Sarah, but swore he didn’t know she was with someone.
He then pulled out his phone to show their texts. Turns out, they’d been sleeping together for at least a year.
And here’s where it gets messed up. The boyfriend told Reddit what happened next: “Then she found out she was pregnant and they came to an agreement to just pretend the baby was mine. In return, she wouldn’t lose her perfect life and he wouldn’t be responsible for a baby.”
Yeah, pretty messed up. His girlfriend cheated and got pregnant and decided to tell a whopper of a lie to cover it up.
He knew things were weird because they’d been trying to have a baby but had been having problems doing so. Then all of a sudden, she got pregnant “easily,” he said.
Bryan, her side piece, told the boyfriend that he’d recently became a Christian and said “he couldn’t live his life knowing that I was living a lie while his child didn’t know their real father.”
The two men said they’d keep in touch, but the boyfriend told Bryan not to say anything.
He decided to wait until after his girlfriend gave birth to tell her that he knew about her cheating. He said he didn’t want “to hurt her in her most vulnerable moment.”
Finally, she went into labor and the baby was born.
“What should’ve been a beautiful moment of me holding my baby, was the most heartbreaking time of my life,” he said. “Just knowing he was not mine hurt me.”
The boyfriend started packing his stuff to leave. She asked where he was going, and he finally told his girlfriend that he knew she cheated and got pregnant (and that the baby wasn’t his).
He told her: “I know I’m not [the baby’s] father. You can act all shocked but I know. Just ask Bryan to come, I’m positive he’ll sign the birth certificate.”
And he left. And despite her blowing up his phone with calls and texts, the relationship was over.
The boyfriend concluded the story by saying, “It was hard pretending these last few months but I think I’m satisfied. I feel really really heartbroken though. I was planning to propose to her on the day our baby was born. I was gonna make her the happiest woman ever. Oh well.”
Needless to say, his story blew up on Reddit. Here’s a sampling of the comments:
Others had some good advice.
And some commenters didn’t believe the story was real.
The boyfriend later updated his post, in response to some of the questions and comments.
He said that he planned to get a paternity test to make sure, but he was certain that Bryan was the father.
“I don’t care what anyone says, I’m sure the kid isn’t mine,” he wrote.
Some commenters did accuse him of being cruel and he had words for those people.
“For those of you calling me a psychopath or whatever, I don’t really care,” he said. “You’ll all forget about this post in a day anyway, while I’ll have to live with this shit for the rest of my life. What I did wasn’t amazing but I don’t care. All I ever did was treat her amazing and this is how she pays me back.”
If you’re wondering, surveys show that 22 percent of married men have committed an adulterous act at least once in their life. Meanwhile, 14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.
But yeah, that’s the story of a girlfriend who cheated and got pregnant. It’s a bummer that a kid had to be born into this situation, but hopefully, they’ll grow up with some sort of stability.