People were shocked when John Cena and Nikki Bella broke up, but apparently they called their engagement off over Nikki’s desire to have kids. John allegedly repeatedly made it clear he did not want those things.

“I do want to be a mom,” she told her then-boyfriend Johnin a 2013 episode of Total Divas. “I feel like I’d be missing out.” He quickly responded: “I’m going to choose my words carefully. I can’t give you that.”

She also questioned’s his intentions when he asked her to sign a 75-page contract before moving into his home. “I don’t know where this is coming from,” she said on the show “Is that all I’m going to be in your heart is a guest? Am I ever going to have that permanent spot in the rest of your life?”

A year later he again told her, “I’ve told you I don’t want to get married and I don’t want to have kids, and you do want to get married and you do want to have kids. I feel like there’s a time bomb over my head.”

In 2016, John told Rolling Stone, “I know I cannot handle raising a child.”

Then the clincher: In 2017, the cameras were rolling on the set of the spinoff Total Bellas, when John met Nikki’s twin sister’s baby for the first time and he refused to hold her. Ouch.

“While this decision was a difficult one, we continue to have a great deal of love and respect for one another,” the couple said via Instagram. “We ask that you respect our privacy during this time in our lives.”

H/T: Page Six