“‘Your pregnancy changes everything,’ she told me,” Rebecca recalls. “‘That’s why I reached out. I have a proposal. Don’t answer yet. Just listen.’”
But before Kate could continue, her daughter Lily interrupted.
Rebecca froze.
“She was smiling. Genuine. Not sarcastic. Not angry. Just… open.”
Then came the second shock: Kate revealed she and Jack had already divorced—five months ago.
“I was stunned,” Rebecca says. “Jack never told me. I thought he was still figuring things out. Still planning to leave. But he already had. And he didn’t think I needed to know.”
Kate’s proposal was simple, but profound: she wanted her children to have a relationship with their new sibling. For the child to grow up knowing family—not secrets.
When Children Teach Adults About Grace
Rebecca expected resentment from the children. Bitterness. At the very least, discomfort.
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