I found out recently that I am pregnant and I don’t know who the father is. To be honest, Marcus is not the only man in my life. There’s Kachi, another man who is planning to come and see my parents for my hand in marriage. He is new.

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I don’t know if you will remember me, but I shared my story last month about dating Marcus. He is a thirty-five-year-old man with a limp who wants to marry me, but my mother said at 18, I am too young for marriage.

After my story was published, I told Marcus that I was no longer interested in the marriage.

“What do you mean you’ve lost interest? Have you forgotten everything I have done to help make your life easier?” He questioned.

I couldn’t tell him it was my mother who didn’t want him. I gave him the impression that I was the problem. “You’ve been amazing to me, but right now I don’t know what I want. I think I am too young for marriage,” I explained.

Regardless of what I told him, he is still around offering me help. That’s not my problem right now though.

My concern is what to do with the pregnancy. So far, Marcus doesn’t know that I am involved with another man. He believes he is all I have. So he didn’t ask any questions about the paternity of the baby growing in my womb.

When it comes to my new man, Kachi, I have only done it with him once. I got my period after it happened. So I thought nothing of it.

Later, Marcus and I did it, and then I fell sick. We went to the hospital for some tests and the doctor confirmed that I’m pregnant. Two months.

Marcus is the only one who knows I’m pregnant, and that’s because he went with me to the hospital when I was sick. I haven’t told Kachi because I am not sure if he could also be the father.

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Marcus told me, “I know I am the one responsible for your current predicament but I won’t impose what I want on you. Whatever you decide, I will support you fully.”

That’s my problem. I don’t know if I should get rid of it and risk all the complications that come with the procedure. I am talking possible death and future fertility problems here.

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Or if I should pass the baby off as Kachi’s, seeing as my family would be more accepting of him than Marcus.

I wish I could tell Marcus about my confusion, but then he would know I have been dating another man alongside him. If I decide to let him claim the child too, my mother may disown me. She may think I got pregnant on purpose just so I could marry him. What do you advise I do?

—Vera

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