"It's a big decision to make. If it's what you both genuinely want, she will know it." It wasn't the kind of thing that they could just change their minds on. Not something that should be rushed.
"The first one was horrible," Ned confessed when he was asked about his own family situation. He was young and a little naive and he had no idea what he was doing. Catelyn's resistance and rejection cut him to the bone. It would have ruined their marriage if they had loved each other any less. That and she was carrying their first baby.
"Not my wife's. But I insisted on raising him with our children. It got easier after that. I can't tell you what it's like - I don't know anything different. It has its moments, but that's the same in any family I would imagine." He hadn't come from a small family, with two brothers and a sister, but he had spent so much time away from home that he felt a little estranged from it all.
"She will come to terms with it in her own time," Ned said, shifting the topic back to the doctor's situation.
"Maybe you could show her you're keen. Do some research and make appointments with agencies and all that, once you're ready."