I’m sharing this story with a heavy heart. I have a guy, and we’ve been dating for almost 6 years, though we broke up for 2 years before getting back together recently. He’s 26, and I’m 23. We are both graduates and have completed NYSC. He works in his dad’s company, while I’m yet to get a job. He suggested I learn a skill, and he would sponsor it. He’s everything I prayed for in a man—kind, supportive, and never makes me cry. The issue is that my family, including my extended family, doesn’t want me to marry him because our families had an issue before we were born. My dad and his dad’s younger sister once dated and had a pregnancy that was later aborted.
That’s why my family is against us being together, even though his family has accepted me. I recently got pregnant, and his family was supportive, but when my family found out, they insisted I couldn’t be pregnant for him. My mom forced me to deny the pregnancy, then took me to a hospital to have it aborted. I haven’t told my boyfriend, and I feel guilty. He’s happy, sending me money, and planning for the baby without knowing what happened. I’m lost and even thinking of s***ide because I never thought I would abort my first child. I don’t know what to do.
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