{"id":3686,"date":"2026-01-28T23:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:47:57","slug":"i-wont-let-my-husband-be-a-birth-partner-for-his-bff-hes-married-not-on-call-for-single-moms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Let My Husband Be a Birth Partner for His BFF, He\u2019s Married \u2014 Not on Call for Single Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"393\">After years of infertility and loss, Jenna is blindsided when her husband\u2014once her strongest support\u2014suggests something unthinkable. His childhood friend Leah, pregnant and single, wants him listed as the baby\u2019s father, calling him \u201cthe closest thing to a dad.\u201d To Jenna, it feels like betrayal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"652\">When she objects, her husband dismisses her pain, calling her selfish and saying this may be his only chance at parenthood. Then Leah sends a manipulative voice message, claiming Jenna \u201cshould understand\u201d and threatening to lie that the real father is dead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"796\">Devastated and furious, Jenna cuts off Leah and gives her husband a clear boundary: if he signs the birth certificate, their marriage is over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"987\">Now she\u2019s accused of issuing an ultimatum and resenting motherhood\u2014while feeling erased, guilt-tripped, and pushed aside to make room for a fabricated fatherhood that excludes her entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of infertility and loss, Jenna is blindsided when her husband\u2014once her strongest support\u2014suggests something unthinkable. His childhood friend Leah, pregnant and single, wants him listed as the baby\u2019s father, calling him \u201cthe closest thing to a dad.\u201d To Jenna, it feels like betrayal. When she objects, her husband dismisses her pain, calling her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}