When I was 16 I got pregnant, however I only told my mother months into the pregnancy and so I could not have an abortion. My parents were so angry at me. My mother told me to keep the baby and that someone in our church could look for people who could adopt the baby. So that year, while my classmates were writing SSCE and JAMB i was at home heavily pregnant. To be honest I did not know anything about the potential parents, I just knew we were the same tribe and that they were coming from port harcourt. I gave birth in a hospital, my mother was the only other person in the room apart from the medical staff. She told me to close my eyes and to never look at the baby. So I never saw the baby, left the hospital. The next year I did GCE and JAMB and entered university. No one knew I was pregnant, the only people who knew where my mother, my father and the woman at church.  While sometimes I feel like a part of me is missing, I knew that my parents made the best decision at the time.
Now my problem is that I am in a serious relationship and my fiance has just proposed to me. I want to know if I should let him know. Is this something I need to tell him? My mother has told me to not ever talk about it, so should I keep it hidden forever like it never happened?

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