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Jenna\u2019s Letter (Condensed)<\/strong><\/p>\n After years of infertility struggles and heartbreak, Jenna\u2019s husband\u2014once her biggest supporter\u2014is proposing something shocking. His childhood friend Leah, pregnant and single, wants him listed as the baby\u2019s father on the birth certificate, saying he\u2019s \u201cthe closest thing to a dad\u201d the child will have. Jenna sees this as betrayal. Despite her pleas, he dismisses her pain, calling her \u201cselfish\u201d and saying it may be his only chance to be a parent.<\/p>\n Leah then sent a manipulative voice message, claiming Jenna\u2014of all people\u2014should understand and threatening to lie that the real father has died. Enraged and hurt, Jenna told Leah to never contact her and warned her husband: if he signs, he can leave. Now she\u2019s being accused of giving an ultimatum and resenting motherhood.<\/p>\n She feels erased\u2014pushed aside in favor of a fabricated fatherhood\u2014 and fears she\u2019s being guilt\u2011tripped into legalizing a role as \u201cdad\u201d to someone else\u2019s child.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jenna\u2019s Letter (Condensed) After years of infertility struggles and heartbreak, Jenna\u2019s husband\u2014once her biggest supporter\u2014is proposing something shocking. His childhood friend Leah, pregnant and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}