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Men who use children to trap women
All Woman, Relationships
 on October 8, 2015

Men who use children to trap women

By VANESSA E CHAMBERS 

They say that a child can’t keep a relationship together, and women are usually the ones who come to mind in this type of scenario — the woman gets pregnant with hopes of softening the man’s heart into giving the relationship another chance. But she isn’t the only one who plays this deck of cards.

Men are also guilty of doing this. Men have been known to burst condoms or find other deceitful ways of getting women pregnant, all in an attempt to emotionally trap the women into staying with them.

But this never works, as often the women grow resentful and burdened being with someone they no longer care for, and this arts and crafts patchwork of a relationship doesn’t last long, slowly falling apart and becoming irreparable.

When this happens, some men find it hard to let go of the women and will use the children as pawns, a way of getting to see their exes.

If this doesn’t work, they can become vindictive and refuse to help take care of their children’s needs. Some will even stop seeing the children to prove a point, and as such, the same child that was used as a band-aid in the relationship becomes a victim.

If a relationship has died, bringing a new life into it isn’t going to save it; it’s only going to complicate an already complicated situation.

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