#67: I’m Pregnant, and He Doesn’t Want Kids

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Franzi. Her boyfriend said that he wanted to be a father, and soon afterward she became pregnant. But in the second month of her pregnancy, her boyfriend decided that he didn’t want to be a father after all.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast. My guess today is Francie and she is not doing well. She has a boyfriend
0:19.0	that agreed that they would get pregnant and that he wanted the father and then when she became
0:26.1	pregnant and the second month he decides he doesn't want to be a father and he tells her so and oh my goodness, oh my goodness, she is devastated.
0:41.4	And what we're working with here is he should never let her down, never lie to her.
0:48.0	He should be true to what he says.
0:50.4	Francie just needs him to be happy about the pregnancy to stand by her and the baby and to keep his word and that's not what happened so
1:02.4	welcome to this thing this is not a little thing like
1:07.2	think you're in for a treat and I'll let you be the judge of that welcome to the
1:11.6	pod the judge of that. Welcome to the pod. Hello, beloved. Hello, beloved. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, hi.
1:26.0	Hello Katie.
1:28.0	Hi, Francini, nice to thank you.
1:31.0	Oh, I'm very grateful that I have this opportunity.
1:35.0	Thank you so much.
1:36.0	Oh, it's, it's, oh, that's just honey.
1:39.0	Oh my goodness, you're so welcome.
1:41.0	I'm very nervous.
1:44.0	Oh, rightfully.
1:47.0	so when you look at what's going on in your head,
1:50.0	oh my goodness.
1:52.0	All day long. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Earth School, Earth School. I did the judge your neighbor worksheet. Oh, you did. Oh my goodness. He lied to me, they lied to me, what was it? I am devastated and feel
2:09.5	full by him because he doesn't act by his words.
2:13.8	Okay, so he doesn't act by his words and the situation if you tell us so
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