There were signs of a break up before the pregnancy—I thought it was coming and then the announced the pregnancy. It's just that the pregnancy doubled the problems before the pregnancy… but I'm pretty sure people probably forgot those issues during the pregnancy arc.

From a writing PoV, I think the core problem is that Danny over the seasons while being explored, hasn't really arced that much as a character. We never really got to explore why Danny as a husband didn't work out and what he really was afraid of when that relationship failed. By breaking up him and Mindy, we get to…