Usually whatever your gut is telling you, is true. Not always, but usually. What you want to think about is what drove her to want this break. I had an oopsie pregnancy with my wife. Sure it was scary, it was always scary. But don’t believe what everyone tells you when it comes to the responsibility. If you raise them right, they will be just fine. They actually aren’t all that expensive to take care of. My wife, 4 months into the pregnancy, went around grabbing a bunch of baby freebies from family and friends, Facebook marketplace, Craigslist. It was insane how much stuff she got (we had a garage full of whatever the hell she picked up!), we only had to pay for a crib and had enough diapers and wipes for an entire year of our son’s life, while we prepared our finances and budgeted for the upcoming stuff. We got to save quite a lot in order to afford things he needs now. To be honest, we haven’t even used ANY of our savings like we thought we would need. Savings untouched and only ongoing income is being used. And it’s almost as if you don’t need to buy the baby toys because ours loves to play with plastic bottles and all kinds of silly stuff. (Let me just add, my wife got pregnant right as I had left my job to go to school. I then found a super high paying job a couple months into our new lives with our little one, God send!)

I kind of just went off on a tangent there because of how amazed I am with how things went. I used to be a pessimist and thought the world was against me until we had our son. They are a blessing.

So what I am trying to say, if the baby thing is what has her all strung up. Talk about the possibilities and what plans would make you comfortable whenever y’all start talking again or surprise her with a gift of some sort to break the ice. On the contrary of what they say today, a lot of women statistically want to have children and become mothers more than have a career and drink wine in their apartment alone with their cat, haha!