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Hello and welcome to the CRS podcast. In this episode, a man was in a seemingly happy year-long

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relationship with his girlfriend, Emma, until she unexpectedly claimed she was pregnant. He was shocked

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as he knew he was infertile but initially tried to stay calm. Alright, so this is a wild one and

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it all went down. A few months ago, I was in what I

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thought was a solid, happy relationship with my girlfriend, Emma. We've been dating for about a

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year and while we weren't talking about marriage or anything yet, we were pretty serious or so I

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thought. One random afternoon, Emma drops the bombshell, she's pregnant. Now, I'm not going to lie.

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My first reaction was an excitement. It was shock. See, I've known for years that I'm infertile.

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Long story short, I had a medical condition when I was younger and it left me unable to have kids.

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I've never really told anyone except my closest family and obviously past partners when the

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topic of kids came up. But Emma, we hadn't had that conversation yet. So when she told me she was

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pregnant, I froze. My mind was racing but I played it cool. I smiled, congratulated her and said

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something generic like, wow, that's huge news. Internally though, alarms are going off like

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crazy. The next couple of days, I tried to process everything. I thought maybe the doctor was wrong.

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Maybe there's some miracle science thing I don't understand. But deep down, I knew something wasn't

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adding up. Finally, I decided to confront her. I sat Emma down and gently told her about my

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infertility. I was expecting her to be shocked or confused but instead, she got really weird.

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She stammered, avoided I contact and then said, well, maybe it's just like a miracle or something.

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At that moment, my suspicions went into overdrive. Started asking questions.

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Have you been to the doctor? How far along are you? Can I come to your next appointment?

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She kept dodging and giving vague answers and the more I pushed, the more defensive she got.

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Why are you questioning me? Don't you trust me? She snapped. But I couldn't let it go.

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A few days later, I decided to take it one step further. I told her I wanted to be involved

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every step of the way and asked her to take a pregnancy test in front of me, you know,

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just to celebrate together. That's when she completely flipped. She started crying,

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accusing me of not believing her and stormed out of the apartment. At that point, I knew

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something was seriously off. That night, I couldn't sleep. My brain was going a million

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miles an hour and I kept replaying all the little red flags I'd ignored over the past few months.

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Something wasn't right and I needed answers. The next day, I decided to confront her again.

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But this time, I wasn't playing nice. I straight up told her I didn't believe she was pregnant and

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that I needed the truth. That's when she cracked through tears and a lot of stammering. She finally

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admitted the truth. She wasn't pregnant. But wait, it gets worse. She then dropped another bombshell.

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I wasn't going to tell you, but if I was pregnant, it wouldn't have been yours.

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She said barely looking at me. My stomach dropped. I asked her what she meant and after a lot of

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awkward silence, she finally admitted it. The baby, if there had been one, would have been my best

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friend Andrews. Yeah, my best friend Andrew. Apparently, Emma and Andrew had been hooking

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up behind my back for months. She said it just happened and that she didn't mean for it to get

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this far. I guess her little fake pregnancy stunt was her twisted way of trying to manipulate me into

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staying with her, even though she'd already betrayed me in the worst possible way. It was

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absolutely floored. I didn't even know what to say. I just stared at her, feeling this mix of

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anger, betrayal, and sadness that I can't even describe. After what felt like an eternity,

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I told her to get out of my apartment and never come back. After she left, I called Andrew.

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At first, he denied everything. But when I told him that Emma had already confessed,

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he finally owned up to it. His excuse? I didn't mean for it to happen, man. It was a mistake.

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Mistake. Right. Told him we were done and hung up. I haven't spoken to either of them since.

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Looking back, I feel like an idiot for not seeing the signs sooner. There were little things,

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like how Emma would get weirdly defensive about her phone or how Andrew had been more distant than

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usual. But I brushed them off because I trusted them. That's the part that stings the most.

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I trusted them. If there's any silver lining to this whole mess, it's that I dodged a massive

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bullet. Imagine if I hadn't confronted her. I might have spent months, even years, thinking I was

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going to be a dad, only to find out the truth later. Anyway, lesson learned. Trust your gut,

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and don't ignore the red flags. And for the love of all that's good, make sure the people you're with

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actually deserve your trust. I'm moving on now, but man, that was one hell of a wake up call.