On the eve of a life‑altering pill, a 25‑year‑old single mom went to the internet with one desperate question: “Someone please tell me I’ll be okay.”
Posting under the handle u/Dangerous_Dog_5854 in a popular advice community, the mother of a two‑year‑old revealed she is scheduled to have a medication abortion after a short‑lived situationship imploded the moment she found out she was pregnant.
“Accidents happened and here I am,” she wrote, adding that she and the baby’s father broke up after the positive test and are now “not on speaking terms.”
The twist: this isn’t just emotional turmoil. She says pregnancy wrecks her body. She was diagnosed with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) during her first pregnancy and now can’t keep food down, surviving on “some crackers here and there” and “constantly throwing up.” With no support system, one toddler, and a body already struggling, she chose abortion for herself and her daughter — and is now drowning in grief and “what ifs.”
Commenters didn’t hold back on the man who vanished. In the replies, OP later drops the bomb that the guy was “seeing multiple girls same time he was playing dad to my daughter and sleeping in my bed.” One commenter bluntly calls him “a piece of trash,” and OP agrees, saying she’s “glad i won’t be connected to him anymore.”
But the real shock is how unified the crowd is around one message: it’s okay to grieve and still believe you’re doing the right thing.
“It is ok to regret the decision, and still understand that you are making the best decision for you right now,” one top comment insists, racking up hundreds of upvotes. Another adds, “It’s absolutely ok to grieve a choice while also knowing it’s the right choice for you and your child.”
Others, some sharing their own abortions, describe feeling powerful once the hormones faded and the “loser” exes were out of their lives for good. Health‑care workers in the thread warn that POTS “is nothing to fool around with,” bluntly reminding her: “Your living child needs you.”
Tonight, one woman sits alone, about to swallow a pill that severs her last tie to a cheating ex — and possibly saves her life. The internet can’t make the decision for her, but it has made one thing crystal clear: she is not going through this storm in silence.