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Partner doesnt want baby

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Jen2209 · 10/10/2022 21:40

Hi all, needing to venr & get some perspective as my head is all over the place.

I have a 3 year old son and have been with my partner for 15 years. We've had a very rough time since our son was born, our relationship was badly rocked by a newborn, PPA & lockdowns. We're now in a much better place but I wouldn't say 100%, I'm not sure if you can ever forget coming that close to separating.

I'm six weeks into an unplanned pregnancy, we had talked generally about a second child but never felt ready. I am scared but happy, he wants me to have a termination. We've been trying our best to have conversations rather than arguments but he's said, IMO, some really awful things that I just can't forget. Eg:
"I'll resent you forever if you have it"
"You're going to fuck my life up"
"I'm worried about our sex life, I wasn't attracted to you after birth & your vagina was loose"

Does anyone have any tips or experience of how to move forward with this? I have made it clear to him that I am not terminating, I now feel like I am waiting for him to leave and am walking round on eggshells scared to mention anything about the pregnancy. I want to be happy but I can't be.

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Jen2209 · 19/11/2023 21:44

Best of luck with the last of your pregnancy. My partner found the whole of my pregnancy very difficult and things didn't magically switch once baby was here but you can see that he has a lot of love for her now. She's five months old now and he starts his paternity leave tomorrow, which he requested to bond with her more, and he's really excited about it which is lovely to see x

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