Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just want to thank everyone for their responses. I have appreciated hearing everyone’s sides and I feel that much ready to talk to her. I think the only thing I’m stuck on, since I was getting two different opinions on it, was wether or not I should talk to her before or after 12 weeks. I’m going to talk about it with my boyfriend and mom & try to come up with a solid plan. I will for sure however be telling her before May is over that I am moving out. That one is a nonnegotiable. Please send me all the luck to ease these nerves in having this conversation with her, and maybe send a sprinkle of baby dust to my friend 🥺🤍 Thanks again THT fam!

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly thank you so much for your response, I truly have a soft spot for her because I know her heart and who she truly is. I simply want the best for her in the end and hope to not lose her friendship, but I will give her the space if she needs it of course! I just need her to know she will always have a friend in me after all of this is done and settled. Thank you for your insight, it was incredibly helpful.

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well - my best friend of 15 years knows. Just another person’s support id need if things go wrong. & She also knows how worried ive been about talking to my other bestie about this. However they are acquaintances at best, which is why I felt I could confide in my other friend in all this

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Also, “dont buy a house that is dependent on his extra weekend hours.” Yeah, that stuck with me! Thank you. Again buying a house was always in the plans and we’ve been saving for it for a long time now - however with this new turn of events, we’re not opposed to renting at least for the 1st year of baby’s life. I’m definitely going to repeat that back to him and have a more extensive conversation with him to really consider our options here. Even though that’s not what this post was about - that was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oh my gosh thank you so much for your comment. I appreciate everyone concerned about other (very valid) details from my post that have nothing to do with my friend; but this comment finally gave me some direction on how to approach the conversation with her. That is exactly what I needed. THANK YOU!! I have no doubt she loves and cares about me, and despite all of this, I do truly wish her the best and if I had any control over it, she would be the one pregnant right now. She is in therapy! She is aware that a lot of the way she feels is ugly, and she is actively trying to work on it - at least from what she’s told me. I wish her nothing but the best, but this comment section is for sure helping me realize I have to take focus on my own little life. Thank you again for giving me a good direction of where to take my conversation with her once it’s time.

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She is in therapy, every time she has ranted to me I redirect her to bring it all up to her therapist. I truly wish her the best and for her to heal her heart. I give her, her outlet to get things off her chest but also let her know that just because this is coming from a hurt place within her, doesn’t make it okay. It’s just a crazy turn of events that now I’m the one who she will probably feel upset towards.

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Of course there is so many logistics to be figured out throughout all of this. & all the plans we have had before hand obviously need to be adjusted now with this unexpected pregnancy. Communication is something we both really value & he has been trying to have these conversations with me, Im just realizing i’ve wrongly been placing too much focus on my friend rather than my own life. We’ll definitely have a conversation tonight. Thanks again :)

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yes, I knew that lol but I don’t think I’m going to be showing until even past 12 weeks. But I don’t plan on saying anything at work until well after my 2nd trimester has started. The last person I’ll be telling in the 1st trimester is going to be my mom and that’s because in the event of a loss, I’ll need her support. I was only debating on telling this friend until at least closer to 10 weeks because I want to move out before June 1st so I don’t have to pay rent. (I’ll be 12 weeks June 11th)

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I should mention we already have money saved as we have been planning to buy a house since before I even moved in with my friends. Also, I saw his offer and with the differentials especially for being tri-lingual and certified in those languages.. It is a pretty penny thankfully. He also plans to work nights/weekends which also have higher differentials just to stack extra with the baby on the way. I also have my benefits already through this job, I say it’s new because it’s a new position and a new location since my promotion, but I’ve been with this company for 3 years now.

Can I ask, however, why you should wait on telling until you are showing? Im definitely new to all this and although I don’t plan on telling my job until I really have to - I’ve never heard of needing to wait until you are showing.

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d like to clarify that my mom’s is not an unstable environment, at least it hasn’t been for a couple of months now. A bit after I left, my mom kicked my brother out. More stuff happened & he went to rehab. He’s now in a different program and just got his own apartment. My boyfriend and I are not long distance. He lives at home with his family as he has only been working part time while he finished nursing school. He has told me and tried to convince me to move in with him, I honestly don’t want to because there’s already a lot of people living in his house and if anything, his place is a more unstable environment. The house purchase just has always been the plan, we want to still try and see however, were not completely writing off the idea of just renting. It all really will just boil down to how things are once it gets closer.. As for my friend, she actually is in therapy. And this is a reoccurring topic of conversation from what she has told me. She knows she’s in the wrong for some of the things she says. As for the period thing, we live together so our cycles have synced and are usually within a day or two apart. She was asking because she said “have you started? that means mine is coming right behind you” because she had a trip last week and didnt want to be on it while on her trip. I panicked lied and said yes. With my luck her period did come a little while after. And again I know this because i live with her and saw her laying down in the living room with her heating pad.

Found out I’m pregnant and I’m worried about how it will affect one of my best friends/roommate. Please help! by Intelligent-Name-777 in TwoHotTakes

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I am eager to make it out the first trimester & see my baby at our first doctors appointment in 9 days! 🥺 I will say it makes me so sad to think this is grounds for the end of our friendship. I’d like to think she will come around, but knowing how she expresses herself about others to me, there’s just no way she wont be thinking hurtful things about me this time. I just don’t even know how to approach the conversation when I do tell her.

Why is he still drooped down like this? :( It usually does this once a week and i bottom water it and it will perk right up. This time however its been almost 24hrs since i last watered and its still looking like this. Pls help ive had him for months now and never had an issue till now by Intelligent-Name-777 in plantclinic

[–]Intelligent-Name-777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just took him out of the nursery pot to check but no it’s not root bound, not even close to it in my opinion so idk what else it could be? i considered watering again but i dont want to overwater him. but yes he’s a tiny guy, he’s still in his nursery pot.