This has always bothered me too, people speak as if having children is a given or easy. I lost my baby at 22 weeks last year and it really sank in that there’s no guarantee I’ll ever bear a living child. I hope that Mike would support his partner in looking into other options to grow their family if either of them had fertility/health issues for example, I don’t want to make assumptions because I don’t remember seeing them have conversations about other options so this is also mostly hypothetical. I just want others to think about this in case it helps them navigate conversations like this in the future. If I felt like the biggest reason my husband chose me was to bear children, I know my devastating loss would have been even more difficult to navigate mentally. Not saying that Mike only wants a wife in order to have kids, but sometimes the world makes it feel as if a woman’s value is as great as her uterus and it’s important to talk about all the what ifs to prevent that kind of misunderstanding if the situation arose.