The article reflects on the author's journey through marriage and motherhood, starting from the sentimental moment of meeting her husband on a comfortable, iconic couch, to the challenges of raising four children and the mundane aspects of married life. Events such as moving houses, having children, and shifting relationships are depicted vividly with the couch serving as a metaphor for the changing dynamics of their life together. It underscores the bittersweet reality of marriage, where initial passion often yields to the routine responsibilities of family life.
We sat there now, on that couch, now 10 years old, the frame broken from nightly 3-year-old twin acrobatics. There were four kids now, and that night, we'd had plans for a date night, so my mom had taken them for a sleepover.
Our marriage, at that point, had moments of promise but consisted mostly of obligation, errands, chores and Lego battles. Our passion plagued by duty, our chemistry consumed by functionality.
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