My wife wants me to pay $50,000 to carry our child.

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I'm a 34 year old man and my wife is 29.

She has asked me to pay her almost $50,000 to have our child and I'm not quite sure what to do.

I have known slash-spendating my wife for 6 years.

We have been spiritually married for 2 years.

We are not legally married, although at this point we are essentially common law.

We are both high earners.

We both earn over $175,000 a year after tax.

We purchased our home together and we've agreed to split the finances 50-50.

We paid for our wedding, honeymoon, everything 50-50,

although I did pay for the cost of our rings and her engagement ring.

Our mortgage payments were 50-50 and we comfortably own our home now.

So much of our income goes to savings, investments, home improvements and discretionary spending.

Because of our incomes, we felt it would be best to keep our finances separate.

We're both highly independent people and both very career driven.

It's part of the reason I'm so attracted to her.

She's amazing in what she does and I'm so proud to be able to introduce her as my wife and explain what she does.

Unfortunately, our first two years of marriage were hampered by the pandemic in the lockdowns.

We would have loved to have traveled and saved up quite a bit in order to do this.

A couple of months ago, we had a talking decided it might be a good time to have kids,

instead of continuously waiting for better or safer travel conditions.

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