Wife [29f] admitted to me the real reason why she got married to me [31m]. Am I Overthinking things?

My wife and I have been together since we were teenagers, married for 6 years. We have 3 children together (4,2,1) and she's pregnant with a fourth. We both wanted to have a big family and love them dearly. We finally got some time together last night with glasses of wine.

We were talking about our old times back in our teens/early 20's. She told me , "Babe, you know I love you, but I really only wanted to get married to have kids. I asked her to elaborate.

"Do you mean you only wanted to marry to have kids?"

She shrugged. "You know I love you, but ultimately yes. You wanted kids too though right?"

I nodded, but still her words stung a little. She went on by saying how more than anything she always wanted to be a mother--not a wife. The way she said it made it sound like she would have just married any guy just to have kids. Obviously for a lot of mothers the kids get the most attention, as it should be (including mine). But I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a little jealous at times. I don't blame the kids, but that's that. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking things. But it did bother me. A lot. Not sure how to process this?

tl;dr: Wife and I had a conversation and some things were said that bothered me. Trying to think through this rationally instead of emotionally.

Submitted November 04, 2018 at 03:16PM by Thearrangement123 https://ift.tt/2qrh5Xg