‘My husband just told me he loves my sister – I’m pregnant with his child’

A woman has taken to Reddit to share how her husband confessed his love for her sister while she is pregnant with his baby. Now she doesn’t know whether to leave him and bring up the child on her own

A woman has been left heartbroken after her husband confessed his love for her sister – while she is six months pregnant with his child. The 28-year-old woman explained how her sister is her best friend and the only family member she speaks to after becoming estranged from her “passive mum and abusive stepdad”.

Her older sister took on the role as “protector” throughout her childhood and shielded her from many of the hardships she faced. Taking to Reddit, she said: “When she left for college she let me stay in her bed while she slept on the floor in her student room on the days I managed to run away from home. When I turned 16, she let me move in with her permanently. We never saw our parents again.”

She says her sister and her husband have very similar personalities – and have always got on well with each other thanks to their “same sense of humour, love for music, books, movies and games”.

“It’s like a weird perverted thing that I found the male version of my sister to fall in love with,” she added.

“They get along very well and that was so important to me because they’re my only family. We got married a year ago after six years together and I’m 27 weeks pregnant now with our first baby.”

However, her husband’s attitude suddenly changed after her sister met her boyfriend. He would appear distracted and disinterested when the four of them would hang out.

She said: “He got along very well with me and my husband although I always felt that my husband never really liked the guy.

“When I asked him once why he didn’t like him, he got flustered and told me that he didn’t know it was noticeable and apologised.

“He told me he just didn’t think he was good enough for her.”

This only worsened when the boyfriend proposed to her sister during a relaxing evening at their house.

“We were just having pizzas and they were having beers in my sisters balcony and the boyfriend just suddenly went down on his knees and took out a ring,” she explained.

“She was very surprised but happy all the same and said yes.

“When we went back home my husband was a little tipsy. He told me he wasn’t tired and that he’s going to take one more beer and watch TV and that I should go to bed.

“I went back to the living area and he was sitting there crying.

“I asked him what’s going on and he told me that he was in love with my sister, and has been for years but that he knew how wrong this was”

Heartbroken by what she’d heard, the woman questioned whether she should confine in her sister or keep it to herself and pretend ‘everything is normal’.

She said: “I’m shocked and full of anxiety. I don’t know what to do or how to feel about this.

“My sister, should I tell her? Nothing can be the same again but she’s my only family and my best friend. And my husband. Is this over?

“I have been so blind now I see everything, of course he’s in love with her how could I be shocked now? Can I save this marriage?

“And my baby? I promised her a better life than the one I had. I promised her kind and loving parents. I can’t let her come to this world with estranged parents and new people in their lives. What can I do?”

While most users shared a thought for the 28-year-old, others encouraged her to leave her marriage because “she would never be happy now knowing the truth”.

One user said: “You should be in shock and you’re dealing with this and everything it means head on. Talk to your therapist about it. This wasn’t an affair and he didn’t cheat. He’s been in fantasy land.”

Another user added: “As a child that was strung along in a family with parents that should have been divorced when I was a toddler, please separate if things don’t work out. Don’t ‘stay together for the kids’.”

A third user said: “You will forever be comparing yourself to her and doubting his love for you. Do not ever let someone ‘settle’ for you, or you will miss out on an amazing connection you could have in this life with someone else deserving of you.”

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