"All I 'did' was put words to something we both know we had to talk about at some point," It had been bubbling under the surface since she disappeared for months back in the autumn. Jess really didn't want to make her choose, she should be able to both in a perfect world and realistically she might be able to have parts of both. He really just could not wrap his head around how she could keep working, seven months pregnant and in the field. Anything bad could happen with that, that would not only be potentially harmful to the baby, but to her.

Jess sighed heavily, knowing that right now, he was banging his head against a brick wall by trying to argue his side with her. She was hearing him as all or nothing, which was not what he was asking for.  "Nobody is asking you to sacrifice anything. Nor am I asking you make any decisions right now. You tried to force a choice on me, but when I turn the question around, you suddenly aren't okay with that?" The double standard here was frustrating the shit out of him. "What I'm asking is for you to consider the long term plan here. I have been nothing but honest about what I wanted out of life since things got serious, I took a promotion I was on the fence about to be able to support us and a family; I try to make it home at a reasonable hour so that we might be able to spend time together or Merlin forbid, enjoy a meal at the same time, because I'm willing to do that to better us." He was stonewalling his own mother over this, just in case she had strong opinions. "But we're both going to need to compromise along the way, it doesn't have to be fifty-fifty, but some give would be nice."

Stretching his neck to the side, he herd an audible crack and grimaced, if he didn't have a headache by the time this was over, he'd be shocked. "Just think about it and let me know." That was all he could ask at this point. He was willing to put in the work, to make the sacrifices and compromise, but he couldn't be the only one, he could not pull one hundred percent of the weight around the house after they started a family together, or apparently if they started a family together, as she'd so delicately put it. "I'll be here when you figure it out."