“How was I going to tell my kids I was pregnant right after the divorce?”

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They won’t win a beauty prize, but the love between freshly-divorced Magali and her married employer was unquenchable. And after months of dating in hotel rooms, a pregnancy was unexpectedly added.

Magali (39) is the mother of two teenage sons and a daughter (3).

“It doesn’t deserve a beauty prize, but love sometimes makes you do ugly things. I was dutifully divorced, my employer Marc was not. And yet I plunged into this forbidden relationship full of adventure. We had a rush with work, he knocked – how cliché – on the door of my hotel room. My heart had just broken, Marc had a worn out marriage.

Pregnant

I was never meant to get pregnant, but in the months of dating in hotel rooms that followed, it happened. I had been on the pill for half my adult life and was not used to taking my cycle into account. After my divorce I had stopped taking the pill, but I hadn’t thought about how fertile I would be right away.

“I never thought I would be so fertile”

I almost threw up when I found out after a two month relationship that I was pregnant – and not because of the hormones. How was I going to tell my boys they were having a little brother or sister while they were still grieving the divorce? What the impact was on my work, or – more importantly – on the unborn baby, I could not comprehend at all.

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further together

After the three days it took me to get over the shock, I shared the news with Marc in his office. “A sign,” he called my pregnancy, not overly happy but not terribly shocked either. Dazed, we spent the rest of the day at the office. In the weeks that followed, Marc behaved more and more in love and made no effort to hide our relationship in the workplace.

“Was I ready for a new ‘happily ever after’?”

During one of our usual nights in a hotel room, my boys safe with their father, Marc suddenly turned on the light and sat up. “I’m going to do it, Maggy,” he addressed me by the pet name that only he used. ‘I want to go on with you, and our child. In a motley crew with our other children.’ He caught me off guard a bit. I was in love, but also only just divorced. Was I ready for a new ‘happily ever after’? I had little choice but to just take the plunge.

New family

Marc has been in a divorce dispute for four years now. Not so crazy, with what we’ve done. His son and daughter, almost grown up, want nothing more to do with him. That causes a lot of grief, but my boys, now thirteen and eleven, are crazy about their unexpected little sister.

It seemed obvious to them that I started a new family so soon after the divorce. It helps that their father also quickly had a new relationship. Very pregnant I did change jobs, I didn’t want to be the boss’s wife among my colleagues. My affair has done damage, but also turned out happier than I’ve felt in a long time. Our daughter had to get there, we are complete, now.”

This article is in the Kek Mama Love Special 2022.

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