A Calm Proposal—and a Shocking Truth
She explained that she had known about Jack’s affairs for years. It wasn’t a surprise. It had been a quiet, simmering pain that she had come to tolerate—until a child was involved.
“‘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.
She looked Rebecca in the eye and said, “We want to meet our baby sister.”
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.
Instead, she got affection.
“Lily told me she already loved her unborn sibling,” she says, eyes welling with tears. “She wanted to be a big sister. She wanted to spoil the baby. Randall smiled and nodded. He said he hoped it was a girl, so he could be the protective older brother.”
For a moment, Rebecca saw something she hadn’t expected—hope.
“I realized they weren’t angry at me. They were looking ahead. They saw my baby as a gift, not a mistake.”
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