I ( 26 F ) am looking at my partner ( 26 M ) differently for suddenly asking to wear a condom. How would you feel ?

Okay I know how the title sounds and I want to preface this by saying I’ve already apologized to him and told him I’m okay with doing what he is comfortable with. I just need another opinion because I keep thinking about It. We have NEVER used a condom for the YEARS we have been together. He has even “ shot up the club “ multiple times with no worries. But suddenly today he asked to use a condom. His reasoning being multiple people around him have kids on the way and he just wants to be safe. Which is fine but I was initially taken back because this has never been a concern. We have been around multiple people expecting and he would still not care to use a condom. I have even said before we should use one for that reason and he looked at me crazy and asked why since we have never done that before.

It’s just to suddenly throw that at me BEFORE we are about to hook up threw me off and my initial reaction was to kind of shut down because alarm bells rung in my head. So I told him in the moment how It just sounds weird coming from his mouth when that has never been a concern.

Like I said I have since apologized and told him if that’s the honest reason why then it’s fine if It makes him more comfortable. But I’m still just thrown off and now I’m kind of feeling different