I asked my wife over the weekend when we attended what was the seventh wedding we’ve been to since being married ourselves three years ago.

She answered confidently, “oh, no, you’re not.”

When I asked her what she thought was different, she listed a lot of inconsequentials, like me changing my job, etc. But then she said, “And you want to be the father of my children.”

“But I wanted to do that before,” I said. And in truth, I did, as I knew she wanted to have children, and I would not have asked her to marry me, much less to retry at having a relationship, without considering this first.

She seemed to think differently, and perhaps she drew a distinction between being willing to and wanting to. Or maybe the proof is in the act, of knowingly attempting to procreate with her.

I went on to ask her if she would marry me again, mostly joking, and she laughed and said, “yes.”

Then we had sex.