In Breaking Dawn, we see Bella and Edward finally marry. You could say that this is so romantic and that they are soul mates, meant to be together. But if you look at the other books, Edward sort of blackmails Bella into saying yes to his proposal. She did not see the point of marriage. She was turned off by it, I think because of the problems that she witnessed with her parents. Bella wanted Edward to change her into a vampire before she got too much older than him so she wouldn't look older than him. He wanted to wait. He said that she needed to live her life before she lost it. He continued to make up excuses as to why she should wait. He wanted her to go to college first. He even tried leaving her so that she could pursue the things that people should experience and that she couldn't do with him. That plan didn't work because they both almost died without each other, literally. So she said yes and they married. Edward continues to stall the changing process through the honeymoon. But then she figures out that she is pregnant. The baby was tearing her apart and when she gave birth she was dying. Edward had to change her at that moment, before he lost her forever.
I think in the back of her mind that was her plan all along. She knew that being pregnant with a half-breed would probably kill her. She experienced extreme pain as her bones were breaking, yet she endured. She did what she had to do. I think she wanted the baby even more because it was one thing that Edward said she would miss out on if she became a vampire. She also knew that Edward would not just stand by and watch her die. He would change her to save her life. In the end she got everything that she wanted, on her terms.
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