Woman's boyfriend calls her friend's pregnant belly ‘disgusting’, makes her second-guess having kids with him in the future: ‘It makes me feel like he will one day see me as “disgusting”’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Apr 30, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

The fact that human beings can create life, like a whole human being, and cook it up in their bodies, is pretty beautiful. Not only do certain bodies hold the power to carry a life to term, but those bodies stretch and conform to the baby's needs. Heck, those bodies even produce milk to keep the babies sustained while they're in a phase when they can't drink water! Pregnancy is not an easy time in anyone's life by any means, but it's sure as heck a beautiful and astounding process to behold.

In this next story, though, a woman's boyfriend thinks the opposite. The woman who posted the story explains that her friend is currently very pregnant with a swollen belly. She poked harmless fun at the friend in a lighthearted manner, but her boyfriend seriously called the pregnant belly "disgusting". He even doubles down before attempting to gaslight his girlfriend into feeling sorry for confronting him about the distasteful remark… Luckily, the woman is now second-guessing if she should even see her relationship through the long term, especially if this means he'll find her "disgusting" too when she's carrying his child in the future. What do you think about this? Scroll below to read the entire story.

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  • "AITH for getting upset at my partner for calling another women’s pregnant belly ‘disgusting’?"

    Hello everyone first time poster here. It's gonna be a long one as well. For some context, I (24F) and my boyfriend (27M) have been together for 2 years now and have been going THROUGH it
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  • lately in our personal lives which of course has effected us in our relationship as well. I would say our biggest issue is communication and how I feel like he always tells me I am overreacting a lot so I feel not very heard.
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  • Here's the story. After an already stressful day from an incident I had with my mother whom I live with, and we had JUST talked about it via text so he knows I was stressed, my boyfriend
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  • switched the subject and brought up our mutual friend (she is closer to me, she was my childhood bff but we haven't spoken since high school and he knows her through her older
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  • brother, but we both follow her on Instagram still) and how she posted a bump pic via her story about how she is ready for her baby to come. Mind you she is VERY ready to pop and that is why she posted a pic of her belly.
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  • When my boyfriend brought her up I said "omg i know someone get that baby out her hahah" in a joking manner because she is very obviously due any day now.
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  • My boyfriend's response was and I quote via text "that sh is disgusting". I obviously got VERY enraged and called him out for it and how not only was it r de and
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  • disrespectful to comment on a pregnant women's body like that, it also makes me feel like he will one day see me as "disgusting" when I am ready to give birth as we have spoken about wanting kids in the future.
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  • His response was automatically defensive and said I am putting words into his mouth because he didn't say anything about how I would look pregnant he had just
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  • can't say how he feels because I overreact too much. I stood my ground because not only did he not automatically apologize and realize what he said was horrible, he made me feel like I was the crazy one for acting how I did.
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  • I canceled our plans we had for the next day and said I no longer wanted to talk to him and he gave me a crappy apology and said he will just "never say anything ever again". Am I the ah le?
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  • Lala_G NTA That isn't an apology if it ended in that. He's trying to guilt you. And also I'm assuming he's seen as many pregnant bellies as most men that age, which is nearing none. He's speaking from misogyny. And that would make me run honestly if other things were already off.
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  • Reggaepocalypse It's one thing to make a crass joke that doesn't land. I'm a dude and I do that sometimes w my wife. It's another to just say something disgusting like this and mean it at 27 years old. You're entirely reasonable to worry about his long term prospects if this is how he talks about pregnant women. He's old enough to know better, and he acted like a toddler when you called him on it. He must be handsome to have a gf at this point.
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  • GardenialnMyHair Your boyfriend can't take being called out and being held accountable. You're not the ah le but you're dating one. You're 24... time for an upgrade to your life. There's billions of men in the world, and they aren't all jerks like this.
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  • Certain Mobile1088 He is constantly telling you that you overreact? That's the real issue, girl. He invalidates you on a regular basis. That's designed to whittle you down to a size he can control ―to make you shrink yourself in favor of letting him take over.
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  • Pregnant bellies vary wildly, just like lots of other parts of our anatomy. The people making things public-advertising- manipulate reality to fit what they conceive is the "perfect" version of whatever it is. He sounds pretty immature if a pregnant belly makes him react like a 12 year old.
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  • rjtnrva "Just never say anything ever again" is immature, gaslighty bulls . Tell him to grow up before he tries to be a husband and father.
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  • Similar_Corner8081 NTA Find a man who thinks pregnant women are beautiful. As a woman I think pregnant women are beautiful. She's literally carrying a baby how is that disgusting?!! If he thinks a baby bump is disgusting, wait until he experiences child birth.
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