My Husband Wants to Be a Birth Partner for His Best Friend — But He’s Married, Not on Call for Single Moms

For one woman, whom we’ll call Jenna, that wedge came in the most shocking way. After ten years of marriage and years of fertility treatments, she thought she and her husband were finally learning how to heal together. Instead, she now finds herself facing a devastating betrayal: her husband has decided he wants to play the role of father… but not to her child. To another woman’s.

This isn’t just about friendship. It’s about loyalty, legal rights, and what happens when blurred boundaries threaten the very foundation of a marriage.

A Marriage Tested by Infertility

Jenna and her husband, Mike, have walked a long road together. For more than seven years, they tried desperately to conceive. Month after month of disappointment turned into years of invasive fertility treatments, endless doctor visits, and waves of grief that never seemed to ease.

At the end of it all came the diagnosis Jenna had feared: she was infertile. It was a crushing blow, but she believed she and her husband had mourned that loss together.

But now, as Jenna shares her story, she realizes she may have been grieving alone.

Enter Leah: The Best Friend in the Background

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