“My husband is ecstatic and in full dad mode right now,” Jess shared to Reddit. “He’s been insanely great and supportive of me during this time and will make a great father.”
Jess revealed: “There’s one problem here, the [baby] is not his; it’s a co-worker’s of mine who I slept with.”
College sweethearts, Jess and Kieran* have been married for eight years, and while she loves her husband, she found the relationship stiffling.
“I think he’s held me back from experiencing some of the great things about being an adult,” she confided.
“This is where my co-worker, Jeff, comes in,” she began to explain. “I met Jeff two years ago when I came to the department and he’s one of the greatest guys I know.”
Jess said she and Jeff “hit it off pretty much immediately” and have been “friends” ever since.
“Sometimes I think he is my soulmate,” Jess declared. “Well, one night he invited me out to go to dinner.”
Jess elaborated: “I lied to my husband about it and one thing led to another and we slept together. A few weeks later I was pregnant.”
Jess “freaked out” when she saw the two positive lines on the pregnancy test, but then told her husband it was his.
“We had held off having kids for a while but he had always wanted one, so I treated it as a surprise for him that I was ready,” Jess explained.
“Now we are here, I know 100 percent that the kid is not my husbands… if he finds out I know he’ll leave me, and I don’t want that. Despite all of this, I still love my husband.”
Jess revealed: “If he did leave me, Jeff would not take me… I made the mistake of telling Jeff and he has ghosted me since, even successfully requesting a transfer from our department.”
Feeling stressed, Jess told the users of Reddit that she “needs help” as she doesn’t know what to do.
“I’m extremely scared,” she pleaded. “What do I do? How can I fix this? Is there anything I can do to save my relationship with my husband?”
Dlt3 replied: “You tell him straight up the child isn’t his. And if he leaves, you accept his decision… even if that means being a single parent.
“If you don’t tell him and let him make that decision for himself, then you are an even worse person than you already are for being a cheater.”
Another, Feeldenim proclaimed: “You don’t love your husband… tell him the truth and let him decide.”
