Man Gets Angry At His Partner For Announcing Her Unexpected Pregnancy In Front Of Family And Friends Before Telling Him First

There is more to the story - the man is infertile.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• September 7, 2022

"It's not really a prank if someone gets angry or hurt." That's a sentence that parents often tell their kids.

But you would never expect to have to say it to a 34-year-old woman. Today we have a story about one of the cruelest pranks imaginable and the results it yielded several months later.

Our OP has been with his girlfriend for five years. Because of a childhood injury, it was thought he would never be able to have children.

He was upfront about that since they started dating, and three years ago, he revealed more about the childhood trauma that had caused the disability, and she was "very sympathetic."

However, she and a friend performed a practical joke on him with some pregnancy tests last summer. When he got home from work, she said she was expecting because every test returned positive.

"I started freaking out...a happy freakout 'cause I thought I had hit the lottery with the slim to none chance I have. They both started laughing, the tests were from the friend and not my partner," u/Frigggly wrote. "I was pretty much devastated."

Astonished by his reaction, his girlfriend apologized for the joke, saying that she didn't want to hurt him so terribly and that she didn't realize he'd react the way he did. She also noted that she assumed he'd quickly recognize it as a hoax given his injuries.

A couple of months later, his girlfriend hosted a dinner party at their home for her entire family. She had all the guests play some mystery game.

And then she announced she was pregnant. Her family was thrilled, but OP felt this was just another joke.

His absence at the celebration astonished her family, but after what he said next, everything spiraled out of control. OP said: 'Either you're just mentally disturbed, or you're cheating."

And things went haywire from there...

OP asks:

A short intro:

OP was honest to his partner about his infertility and the reasons for it.

And then his partner pulled an extremely insensitive joke (if it can be called a joke)

His partner apologized

But she did it again. Well, that's what OP thought

Now his partner is angry

OP is not sure if he is right

Redditors are sure:

No one would want to find out this way

There are some extenuating circumstances when it would be understandable

Yes, a double whammy

People don't get her logic

And they are pretty suspicious

So many questions here

Wasted reaction

She doesn't sound like she is 34

OP needs to set the record straight

This might be a logical explanation for all the illogical things she did

So many things here that sound so wrong. How can someone think that fooling an infertile person into thinking they will become parents is a good joke?

What kind of reaction did she expect? And then doing it all over again at dinner...

We can only imagine how bad OP must have felt watching and playing that mystery game... You start suspecting the possible answer at half of the game.

He was probably thinking, “No, she wouldn’t. No, she wouldn’t….” And she did.

She must have broken his heart.

Damjan