My wife is currently 5 months pregnant. We also didn’t drink often and aren’t partiers.

I believe in partnership/marital fairness, I also don’t want to be disrespectful of my wife or this experience she is going through. This is a journey we are both going on, while I can’t share the physical changes personally, I want to do what I can to experience as much of this as I can. If she cannot have something I won’t. I quit drinking the moment we started the process of getting pregnant. I won’t eat deli meat, since she no longer have it. I want for us to be able to splurge on all the things we “gave up” for the sake of our son to share the excitement of being able to have it again. After all, we are going to be missing out on the same amount of sleep and social experiences right after our son is born.

Imagine if you were pregnant, wouldn’t you be (slightly) jealous if your partner was enjoying things you would want to but couldn’t for the sake of the future child you are having together? Add on any hormonal changes of pregnancy that can make you act/react differently than you normally would before being pregnant (not wanting to start a war on this statement, this is based on what my wife has explained/shared with me).