I\u00a0could tell he\u00a0was upset and hurt by\u00a0my\u00a0reaction, but he\u00a0accepted my\u00a0decision without arguing. I\u00a0was talking about this to\u00a0one of\u00a0my\u00a0friends, and she told me\u00a0that it\u00a0was mean of\u00a0me\u00a0to\u00a0laugh. Andrew was offering to\u00a0care for me\u00a0and my\u00a0baby, and\u00a0I responded by\u00a0mocking him. I\u00a0didn\u2019t mean it\u00a0to\u00a0come that way, just that his suggestion to\u00a0me\u00a0anyway was so\u00a0insane and stupid that\u00a0I couldn\u2019t help\u00a0it. Was I\u00a0wrong?\n\n\n\n
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Being a\u00a0stay-at-home\u00a0mom can be\u00a0really exhausting.\u00a0Everyone\u00a0has their own way of\u00a0being a\u00a0parent and raising their kids. There is\u00a0no\u00a0single right way, and each family finds what works best for them.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One woman\u00a0shared\u00a0how her\u00a0boyfriend\u00a0asked her to\u00a0be\u00a0a\u00a0stay-at-home mom. Here is\u00a0her story and concerns. I\u00a0(23F) recently found out I\u2019m pregnant with\u00a0my (25M) boyfriend, Andrew\u2019s\u00a0child. We\u00a0have been dating for three years and our\u00a0relationship\u00a0is\u00a0pretty good. We\u00a0both want children eventually, though we\u00a0planned to\u00a0have them later after we\u2019re a\u00a0bit more established in\u00a0our\u00a0careers. The\u00a0pregnancy\u00a0came as\u00a0a\u00a0surprise. Initially, we\u00a0considered aborting or\u00a0placing the baby for adoption …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":73425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-life-style","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73427,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions\/73427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}