My [33m] wife [32f] decided unilaterally to stop birth control

There really was no conversation, she just announced that she was having her IUD removed. Actually, she didn't even tell me, she told a friend who told her husband, who casually mentioned it to me, and that's when I found out. When I asked her about it she said that she wants to have another child now, I said I wasn't ready, and she said well I'm going off birth control. And no, there is no complication or side effects of the IUD that motivated her, the express intent was to get pregnant. She hasn't told me a definite timeline, but she keeps on mentioning that she might be pregnant when discussing various future dates like Thanksgiving or Christmas. And I'm not being unreasonable or misogynistic here, the IUD was not a problem for her, she has never said one bad thing about it. She went out of her way to have it removed. Hey, if there were a comparable reversible procedure for men I'd be happy to do it, but contraception is limited to condone for men. So, yeah, I know I can use condoms, and I will, but no I don't like them. And that doesn't make me a sexist pig. And the thing that sucks is that one of the problems with our marriage is a totally dead sex life, like we have sex once or maybe twice a month. And it's pretty much me having sex with her while she lets me. That's not all, but it's a representitive snapshot. I don't know what her reaction will be to me insisting on condoms, but honestly, it's just going to kill what's left of our sexual relationship I feel, both because it physically decreases my interest, and because I now resent her for making this decision unilaterally.

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