What is patrick maloney referring to when he says "i know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you" in the story, "lamb to the slaughter"?

It was a bad time because her wife was pregnant with his child,  which means the decision of Patrick on left the house and the marriage shock her even more because of her hormonal state. He knows it's not decent to end the relationship with her at nearly months of being future parents and says to her wife to not make a scandal because that will affect his prestige as a police

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun

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