39 Dark Secrets Parents Have Kept From Their Kids
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“I am a single mother by choice. I have a beautiful, healthy 6 year old daughter. I lost a baby boy in 2014, the father was a man I was dating at the time and I desperately wanted to be a mother to a living child. I tell everyone that I got pregnant a second time through donor insemination at a fertility clinic. The truth is I was rejected because my BMI was a little too high. So I met a man through a website where you can find men who want to donate sperm privately. We met and I inseminated myself with his sperm (we were in different rooms, very clinical, no contact, etc.) and got pregnant on the first try.”
“He was a sincere and good guy, who had no interest in having his own children, but he didn’t want his sperm to go to waste. I haven’t spoken to him since I told him I had a healthy baby. But I saved his name for when I told my daughter the truth. Maybe I was wrong, but I was so sad and desperate after losing my son. And I’m so happy with my daughter now. I’ve never told anyone that.”
—32, Sweden
