27-year-old expecting father asks his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend to play a role in his babies life, his family asks her to be a mother-figure: 'They don't want to be left dealing with the actual mother'

One of the only great things about breakups is that you're really not culturally expected to maintain a friendship with that person. You could have spent every day with them for years, and if they break up with you, you have every right to literally never talk to them again. I have been friends with exes, and I know a lot of people who have prosperous friendships with exes, but maintaing that relationship can be a real hassle. There's so much baggage that you don't have in a normal friendship, and so many things you can't talk about as you would with a friend you've never dated. Also, it's so much easier to slip back into the same old dynamic if you maintain contact with someone that you've severed romantic ties with. For some people who can't move on, that's a feature. For most people, that would be a bug.

The woman in this story has been asked to do the impossible: be a mother figure in the life of a baby that her ex-boyfriend fathered with a woman while they were on a break. She's under so much pressure from him and his family to do so, but luckily, she's not budging.
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