Right now, I am eight months pregnant. I live with my boyfriend, his mother, and his father.

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I do basically everything for myself. I thought that living with them would take things off my plate, that they would help around with the arrival of their grandchild. But oh boy, was I wrong. I cook my own food. I wash my own clothes. It takes a lot of grit for me to do it. Just washing my own things is stressful enough, but my boyfriend expects me to wash his things as well. I don’t. I can’t.

Even when I am completely exhausted, I still have to either cook or find money to buy food from outside. If I don’t, I will starve. I am not saying they do nothing for me at all. They do what they can. But if you are pregnant and in my state, you will understand that providing me with food only once a day is not enough. So for the rest of the day, I have to find my own meals.

And as for washing my clothes? Not even once has any of them tried to help or step in.

So here is my question. With a newborn coming, when I will need more help than I have ever needed in my life, would I be wrong to decline this marriage after I give birth and just walk away?