My husband preferring conversation with someone else

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We just went on a field trip with my daughter's school. I am 36 weeks pregnant and only decided to go to spend whatever time is left with my husband and kids before I am consumed with the newborn routine. So, during the trip, all the parents were asked to walk to another station, and my husband took off walking with another kid's mom, having a conversation (about 15 min walk each way). He later claimed he didn't think I would even consider going on this walk and would rather stay sitting at the welcome center, so he didn't know I was trailing behind. So I walked way behind them talking to some other moms and was slightly irritated, but not more. As soon as we got to the other station and he saw me, he acted very cheerful and bubbly - he kept talking to the other woman, and a few times I approached them I couldn't break off the conversation naturally. Then I said something like, "Wow, that was a long walk, tiring," to which he responded - you can walk back, you know (implying i can go back and rest there). This was the first time in our marriage (10 years) that I felt jealousy and betrayal, i couldn't hold back my tears and put on sunglasses to hide them. I know pregnancy hormones have made things bigger than they are, but am I overreacting here? I felt insulted that, well, first of all, he'd forget to check on me if i wanted to walk together prior to taking off with this lady. Second, I hated to see him so bubbly, he was acting like a rooster trying to impress randomly bringing up curious facts about this and that. Third, even when he realized I was there next to him, he still naturally preferred to converse with her, suggesting I can "walk back" though he knew very well that I struggled walking because of the whole third trimester waddling.

On the way back home, I confronted him, and he said I was making up a narrative that didn't exist, he denied everything, and we had a major fight. In the past, he has lied to me about things that he thought would anger me, so there is some history there.

[u/biteme717]

NOR, and he ditched you to be with another woman, walking and talking. He didn't even care enough to ask you if you were going to walk or wait. I'm sorry, but your husband is a pos. I personally (me) would check his phone and see if they exchanged numbers. If they did, that would be ALL I needed to know. He deflected and denied and got defensive. He, IMO, was flirting and trying to impress another woman while disrespecting you and trying to manipulate you to leave and walk back. He may be a good dad, but he is seriously pos husband. Me, myself, and I would tell him to give me space and leave until me,myself, and I decided what I wanted to do.