I Am Already Pregnant For My Married Boss. Do I Confront Him And Risk Losing My Job?

By Lilian Wamaitha

Office romance, though the Kenyan Employment Act has stipulated strict measures to curb this,  it happens despite this. Most of the time it’s unplanned for but as they say, love is like a drug and when it strikes there is little you can do about it.

So what happens when a relationship that was meant to be purely professional turns romantic? What happens when the person you are supposed to respect more than anyone else makes it hard to do so? Imagine a situation where you finally land your dream job, but alas! The devil and his ancestors come calling in the form of your boss.

This is Cate’s story

“Earlier this year at a party, I found myself sharing a bed with my boss. It was barely three months since I joined the company as an entry level employee. My boss and I were always close, I would even say that we were friends so I didn’t see a problem in joining him and his other friends later that evening for a party at his friends’ house. I can not tell what happened, but I would find myself in a sticky situation that is the lesson I am feeling traumatized to this day. I slept with my boss and there was no undoing that. Having been brought up as a staunch Christian, I knew it was a sin to sleep with a married man least of all my boss.

And so that day became the genesis of all my woes to this day. I ended up falling so hard for him after that. I even broke up with my boyfriend of almost two years. I declared my undying love for my boss seeing that we were close. He told me that he felt the same thing for me but couldn’t leave his wife for me. He was however interested in pursuing what we had on the side. Call it stupidity or whatever but I agreed to this arrangement. I would rather remain as his mistress than not be with him at all.  And so our sinful affair was born. 

After about two months, I found out that I was already pregnant for him. To make matters even worse our relationship changed. He stopped seeing me frequently and he would always give me one excuse after another. As it turned out, his wife was expecting their third child and so he cast me aside, like I never existed in the first place.

Now I am already six months pregnant. He has seen my bulging belly and assumed that I was cheating on him with my ex. He congratulated me the other day and wished me the best of luck. He is the father and with the way he is acting, it is clear that he doesn’t want to have anything to do with me anymore. I feel used and I don’t know what to do.

Do I confront him and risk losing my job seeing that he giving me a cold shoulder nowadays? There is a possibility that he will fire me in the hope of protecting his reputation after all his wife is already due to deliver soon.

What do I do? Do I confront him to take responsibility for his kid and risk losing my job? Please advice.”

Putting yourself in Cate’s situation, what would you do? What would you advice her?

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