Two nights ago, I went to bed early because I\u2019m 34 weeks pregnant \u2014 exhausted, uncomfortable, and counting down the days until I finally meet our baby. My husband told me he wanted to hang out with his friends in the living room. I wasn\u2019t thrilled about it, but he said, \u201cI won\u2019t get much free time after the baby comes,\u201d so I agreed and went to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hours later, I woke up to someone shaking me. It was him. His face was serious \u2014 too serious for the middle of the night. Still half-asleep, I asked what was wrong. He looked me straight in the eyes and said something that shattered everything I thought I knew about our marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said, \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore. I don\u2019t want to be a dad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first, I thought he was joking \u2014 maybe drunk, maybe overwhelmed. But he wasn\u2019t. He told me he had been thinking about it for weeks and didn\u2019t want the \u201cresponsibility\u201d of a child. He said he wanted to \u201cenjoy life\u201d while he was still young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sat there, speechless, feeling my baby kick inside me as he packed a small bag and walked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next morning, I called my mom, and together we went to a lawyer. I filed for divorce. Not out of anger, but out of self-respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because one day, when my child asks where their father is, I\u2019ll say \u2014 he left, but we stayed strong.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two nights ago, I went to bed early because I\u2019m 34 weeks pregnant \u2014 exhausted, uncomfortable, and counting down the days until I finally meet our baby…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}