Or, "I want you to be able to defend yourself and the children as best as possible. Therefore I would like you to come to a romantic dinner and the range with me and let you choose a larger capacity/caliber pistol that you are comfortable with. Then I will buy you a new purse, and you can keep your .380 as a "bug"."
I think this would work best if you got down on one knee.
Might be tough to get the rangemaster to let you set up the candels and flowers on the bench but it's worth a shot - no pun intended.
But seriously, we did discuss the merits of larger capacity/caliber with her and she agreed.
Granted she upgraded from a five shot .357 to a 15 shot .40 but you get the point.
Now she wants an AK folder to compliment the 12 gauge in the trunk (of her car) - God I love that woman!