"We Didn't" - Stuart Dybek

"We didn’t" by Stuart Dybek is definitely my favorite short story we've read in this course so far. This poetic story is the most realistic view towards relationships and how a simple underlining issue where either one partner is misunderstood or there is simply a complete miss-understanding in a situation between the two which can create a whole snowball effect of creating more problems simply cause the underlining issue has gone unresolved.
The story also has a very "what if" type feel to it which is something we all think on a daily basis especially when considering the possibilities of how a relationship could had one minor detail been changed about it from the beginning, it could sometimes create an entire different feel to the relationship and could even make or break the couple all together.
But there were certain parts of the story I had a bit of trouble understanding was why it was a pregnant woman that had washed up onto the shore that caused them not able to "do it", why a woman and why was she pregnant I wasn’t sure if that held any significance in tying with the story or the simple fact that a dead person interrupted there first intimate time together which spoiled the rest of the relationship considering even though he wasn’t as affected by the event Gin was so traumatized by that happening she can never be intimate with ever again, regardless of his love for her..