Help! How Will I Tell My Wife I Have A Child With Another Woman

A week ago my uncle called me to come to the village because he had something he needs to say. I asked him why he couldn’t tell me on the phone and he noted that the issue is delicate. I told my wife I would be travelling to the village because my curiosity was peeked.

I did suspect it had something to do with our childlessness because they have been on my neck to marry another wife once our marriage clocked 10 years.  That’s the reason I last visited two years ago. But then I already agreed to go and since our hometown is in the east I left earlier with my driver.

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My wife looked fearful as I was leaving. It was as if she suddenly got a bad feeling that they would get through to me this time. She has always know about their clamour for a new wife. On getting to the village, she kept calling untill I had to turn off my phone.

In the night, my uncle told me I have a two-and-a-half-year-old son somewhere. It’s wild because I don’t even know how to react. It’s a bittersweet moment. I’m happy I have a child, but I’m more disappointed in myself for ruining and betraying my wife’s trust by cheating on her. I hope she forgives me.

Long story short, I had a quickie in the car with my first love when I met her in the village. We hadn’t seen each other for the past 15 years after attending her wedding the same year. You know women marry very early. On my last visit, two years ago, I started talking to her and it ended with a quickie in my car after she told me she is now divorced.

And now she has a child for me. She only didn’t tell me because we agreed to stay off no contact. But I guess she was overwhelmed by guilt hence her reaching out to my uncle and now this, and I don’t even know how to break the news to my wife. I really love her, but now, I don’t know if she will stay with me again after this.

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The child looks exactly like me, but I still want a DNA test to be sure. She does not want anything else except wanting me to know. I want to do the right thing by supporting and taking care of the baby, but i don’t want to lose my wife. I feel embarrassed and disappointed and somewhat relieved that I am not the reason for our childlessness.

I hope she forgives me. What do you all think I should do? Because I don’t want her to leave me. I love her regardless.