After losing my baby, I found out my husband was my sister’s future baby’s father — karma surfaced for them not long after.

When my sister announced her pregnancy months after my miscarriage, I thought the worst pain was behind me. I was wrong. At her gender reveal party, I discovered a betrayal so deep it shattered everything I thought I knew about the people I loved most.

My name is Oakley, and six months ago, I lost my baby at 16 weeks.

They don’t tell you what this kind of grief feels like. How it hollows you out from the inside, leaving you walking around like a shell of a person. How every pregnant woman you see on the street feels like a personal attack. And how your body betrays you by still looking a little pregnant even though there’s nothing there anymore.

A woman in tears | Source: Unsplash

A woman in tears | Source: Unsplash

 

My husband, Mason, was supposed to be my rock through it all. For the first week, he was. He held me while I cried. He made me tea I didn’t drink. God, he said all the right things about how we’d try again and how we’d get through this together.

Then, slowly, he started pulling away.

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