'I missed her bright eyes, before six years of sleeplessness. I missed the lazy brunches we used to enjoy. I missed the fact that the toes of our Christmas stockings used to contain sex toys.'
About a year after our son was born, my wife, Akiko, and I vowed that we would have a. It was the kind of commitment made by thousands of couples every day, with the very idea of a date night now so cliché, it was made into a middling movie of the same name that thousands of couples have wasted at least one date night watching.
But then our conversation shifted. We didn’t talk about Owen exactly, but we did talk about all the different ways that life with Owen had changed things—in, our relationships with our parents, our sex lives and our careers.
We were somewhat older parents, and both of us had thrown ourselves into our new roles with uncommon zeal. Being parents had thoroughly transformed us, as if we had lived through an earthquake or won the lottery. Our love for Owen was endless, ecstatic, embarrassing even.
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