My (27M) wife (26F) of four years is wanting to test a break.

I won’t say you’re dumb, but I will say my belief is this course you are thing of is immature and short-sighted.

I believe many, if not most, human beings live with some amount of the what-ifs. The human experience is too varied and too vast for even the most adventuresome to explore more than a fraction of it, and no matter what path you take, and I believe it’s natural to wonder, if not outright wish, about what life would have looked like if you had chosen that different path.

i believe this break as you are suggesting it, will do immeasurable harm without providing any clear benefits. Two weeks to do what exactly, pray tell? It’s not enough to go wandering another part of the world (as we’re in Covid, no less) not enough to learn a new skill or pick up an opportunity to make the world better, however you personally define that. All I see possible is a 2 week period to sleep with other people. What will that do exactly? Expose you both to possible STD’s and pregnancy without proving anything.

Maturing means learning to live with the knowledge you have missed out on things, but accepting that what you have is pretty damn good. Normally I would suggest counseling, but in your case, why don’t you both take up a hobby or get out there and volunteer or anything so you both aren’t just living in your own heads enough that all your focusing on is the imaginary how much your missing, and start learning to appreciate what you have

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