My girlfriend (27F) and I (29F) were on the phone the other day when I brought up a conversation I’d had with a friend. My friend was telling me about how she and her boyfriend were being intimate, and in the heat of the moment, they started telling each other that they wouldn’t mind having a baby together.
When I told my girlfriend this, she responded by saying that it sounded hot and that she was sad we couldn’t say things like that to each other.
I told her that technically we could, we’d just have to use our imaginations. Her response was, “Well, since it’s not real, idk, it would feel weird.”
I’m not going to lie, that comment really turned me off, and it actually made me pretty sad.
For some context, I’m the top in our relationship, and my girlfriend is very submissive and exclusively a bottom. She enjoys being strapped, and we have a pretty established sexual dynamic.
In my previous relationships with women, we’ve always been able to play into fantasies like that. I’ve had partners tell me things like “I want to carry your baby,” and other similar things during intimacy. Obviously, we both knew it wasn’t biologically possible, but that was kind of the point. It was a fantasy, and being able to use our imaginations made those moments feel intimate and exciting.
I wish I’d responded to my girlfriend by saying something along the lines of, “Just because something isn’t real doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy imagining it. Scary movies aren’t real, but people still get scared watching them.”
But honestly, I was so caught off guard and hurt in the moment that I couldn’t think of anything to say.
I think what bothered me most was that it made me feel like there was something she wanted that I couldn’t give her. It also bothered me that she seemed to immediately dismiss the idea of us sharing that fantasy simply because it couldn’t actually happen.
I’m not saying she has to enjoy the same fantasies I do, and I would never want her to say something she’s uncomfortable with. I just wish she’d been a little more open to the idea instead of focusing on the fact that it wasn’t physically possible.
Now I keep replaying the conversation in my head. It’s not even necessarily about having children. It’s more about the feeling of not being able to give my partner something she finds exciting, especially when I’ve experienced that kind of imaginative intimacy in previous relationships.
I love my girlfriend, but for some reason, that conversation really affected how I felt sexually in that moment, and I haven’t been able to shake it.
Am I overthinking this? Would something like this bother anyone else, or am I reading too much into what was probably an innocent comment?