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>>bewal4+(OP)
Hey, OP here! This is my first ever HN post- I appreciate the warm reception.

A couple hours after posting this on my site, I found this incredible vid of a woman telling her partner she’s pregnant. Incredibly heartfelt, and only 16 views https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA

It was posted over 10 years ago. I wonder if the family even knows that this video still exists.

>>bewal4+54
Why does he walk off at the end? Did he still not believe her do you think?

>>urband+Pb
He also said, "My heart just dropped". That's a curious thing to say.

>>adrian+ee
I guess as in 'dropped a beat'. The news was so surprising his heart stopped momentarily.

>>averag+Ah
It's the opposite, usually. "My heart dropped" is a sense of doom, foreboding, a realisation of oncoming cataclysm. Like 'as I saw the second plane come into view my heart dropped'.

Of course, people don't use language in a consistent way, and people will use terms thinking they mean e.g. their antonym.

It's probably a common initial reaction to learning of impending parenthood. Life will never be the same. Initially one might only see the looming challenge of the mountain to climb.