What should I Do? I wanted kids and marriage with her now I need to think carefully

[Gebidozo]

3 hours ago, Lamron300 said:

I’m now obsessing over her motives. I refuse to believe all the arguments she started were for the reasons she said. 

She started those arguments because she was unhappy in the relationship.

She wanted kids ASAP and didn’t care for marriage. You wanted marriage and didn’t want to have kids ASAP. For both of you, these incompatible goals became a deal breaker, so you broke up. 

There is nothing left to obsess over. There is no mystery. She’s 40, she was in a hurry to have kids, you weren’t. Nobody is wrong here, it’s just incompatibility. A normal thing that happens all the time. Move on and try not to overthink simple things.

[Els]

6 hours ago, Lamron300 said:

At the time I didn’t read too much into the marriage thing. She would say a lot of different versions, only after a while I understood she didn’t want to get married. We had a phone conversation where I had said can we get married in Nigeria one day (as a joke) and she was like we aren’t the same Christian domination and we need to figure out stuff like moral compass and what each others family are like etc etc, any excuse under the sun. Where having kids applied to that stuff too! She would then confuse me the next time by saying she is against marriage and isn’t saying no. And like I’ve said, I didn’t have a timeline on marriage but I didn’t want to have kids first then marriage. One time she said ‘I’ve had a bad experience with marriage’ 

I’m upset but it’s on different levels and working for myself it’s a bit of a disaster as I can’t focus atm. I think it’s mostly because of the effort put in, the way it’s ended and what I’ve taken from it. I don’t like surface level things and I’m not looking forward to getting to know people again, trying to suss out their attentions, potentially dealing with past issues. I know any relationship you have to work on but I’m realizing there is a limited window even though there is millions of people in the world. I’m pretty sure her past experiences meant that the likelihood of things working out between us were slim. 
 

I’m now obsessing over her motives. I refuse to believe all the arguments she started were for the reasons she said. 

I understand that it's upsetting, but respectfully, obsessing over her motives isn't going to help you one bit. What's done is done, and fortunately you're able to leave it with your only "loss" being less than a year of relationship time. 

Imagine if you had actually gotten her pregnant? Then you would be in the same situation as you are now but with 18 years of having to pay child support and possibly co-parenting with a woman whom you're not married to! 

You were pretty lucky IMO. I know it doesn't feel that way now, but it could have been so much worse.

Edited 2 hours ago by Els