You Can't Combine Love With Work

I want to be there for his hard things, but also like share the joys and the triumphs. If I get an offer for a different novel, he's the first person I want to text, celebrate with. And then some of the things that make us busy, you know, you can combine love with washing dishes side by side is romantic. It can be if we just tell ourselves that it is and we make the effort to connect or put on a song in the background that we both love and connect silly to.