More time, or a different kind?

“You and your partner are folding laundry together on a Friday night — a big pile of it, the kind that built up all week. It's almost nice, standing across the bed from each other, passing things back and forth. Then your partner holds up a shirt, laughs at something, and says, 'We really need to start doing more stuff like this, just us.' You pause mid-fold. You're doing it right now. But you also know they mean something more than laundry.”