Wife confused as husband is convinced she's pregnant, shares heart breaking update later

Life can change in ways people don’t expect. That thought felt especially true while reading a Reddit post shared by a young woman. At first, it seemed like a strange misunderstanding, one of those moments couples laugh about and forget. In a post shared on August 6, 2024, under the handle u/ThrowRA_LosingMind, the user wrote that when she mentioned how tired she felt, her husband came up with a sudden certainty: she must be pregnant. She wasn’t, and they weren’t even trying yet. 

She tried to forget about it because people get excited and misinterpret things at times, except he didn’t let it go. “He has made remarks about how happy he is, what a wonderful mother I’ll be,” she wrote, explaining how his joy wasn’t fading at all. She even took a test, then showed him the negative result. “He just got annoyed, said tests can be wrong.” When she confronted him, he withdrew. When she grew firm, he became distant. At night, he’d reach for her stomach as if comforting a child that didn’t exist. “I told him he’s acting crazy,” she admitted. He moved to the guest room. Something was happening, and she no longer recognized the person she was married to.

People in the comments on Reddit expressed their deepest sympathy and concern for the woman. u/Titanea_Tau wrote, "This sounds like a psychiatric delusion and not a simple mistake. You are in danger." u/WrastleGuy was concerned and advised, "Either he’s gone insane, or he’s playing some sort of manipulative game with you. You need to leave the house and get his parents involved." "It's not healthy behaviour. Be careful, and put your safety first," warned u/ruffonferals. She mentioned, “[He’s] one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.” But things got worse faster than expected. When she sat him down again, calm anger overtook him. In an update, she revealed, “[He] said many hurtful things and accused me of being a liar many times.” He insisted she was hiding a baby from him, and he was angry enough to frighten her. In that moment, she understood that something was not right at all.

She went to live with her family, while his family rushed to him. And slowly, painfully, more crucial symptoms started showing up like headaches, changes in behavior, and anger that was never his way. She updated again on Reddit the strangers who had been checking on her: “My husband has a brain tumour.”

From that day, their lives changed, and everyone looked for something positive because some days he was himself, warm, eager to make her laugh so she wouldn’t worry, other days, the confusion swallowed him. After some time, the doctors shared the news: treatment wasn’t possible. In a follow-up post, she stated, “He has a month, maybe. If we’re lucky.” Her grief turned into anger; she wasn't ready for this, honestly, no one ever is. “I love him so much, and I hate him for it,” she admitted in one of the most painful lines she ever shared. A subsequent post read that he died on October 16th, 2024.

In the months that followed with a gap, she returned with a small update, “It’s getting better, one step at a time.” And in that final message, she thanked thousands of strangers for the support and concern that held her up during the darkest year of her life.

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