Chapter 9 We had some life goals. Get money to buy a house. Get better jobs. Get married. Have kids. The last two were partly for our families, but we realized that we sort of did want kids. Just not right away. Our families knew about the first four goals. They didn’t know about our list. Gwen insisted we get a list together of everything we wanted to do before and after marriage, before and after kids. “Like, go on a month-long camping trip in the Adirondacks?” She gave me her exasperated expression. “No. Like having a threesome.” “What? Do you want—” Gwen waved an envelope in front of me. “Here’s my list. You need to write one. Ten items, I think would be good. Whatever matches on both, we do.” In no particular order, together we had: I was surprised that she had included oth

