Your partner went to get some food. He said he would be back soon (he would abandon you).

While he was gone, you started nesting, which means you should be ready to have babies.

However, the days passed and soon turned into months. You keep waiting thinking you were pregnant, you had a false pregnancy, you laid infertile eggs, you waited for your partner and your eggs to hatch, but the days turn into months and the months turned into years, keep waiting.

The eggs never broke and you had to throw them away, you were sad... until one night he came back.