When I was seven months pregnant, the ground beneath my life split open.
My father — steady, dependable, the man I had trusted my whole life — admitting something like that? For a moment, I couldn’t even process my husband’s betrayal because my world had tilted in another direction entirely.
I felt betrayed twice in a single afternoon.
But after the initial disbelief faded, something else crept in: fear.
I was seven months pregnant. My blood pressure had already been unstable. I hadn’t been sleeping. My body felt fragile. My baby felt fragile.
And suddenly, the idea of courtrooms, arguments, and emotional warfare felt overwhelming.
So I stayed.
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