”You know, if we get this house we have nothing left to strive for. We have arrived, everything is in place: we\u00b4re happily married, we have great kids and jobs and soon, maybe, we have the house we really wanted and where our kids will grow up.<\/p>\n
”Sounds great to me.”<\/p>\n
”It\u00b4s not great at all, it\u00b4s terrifying! This is when life will just be happening<\/em> and before we know it we\u00b4ll be sitting by the kitchen table in our beautiful little house where we raised our kids and where every single inch has some memory attached to it and Erik has just left for college and we\u00b4re 60 and all those wonderful years that are just about to start happening now<\/em> will already be over and we\u00b4ll talk about this exact moment and get all nostalgic and sad and then we\u00b4ll die.”<\/p>\n ”Jesus, were buying a house, that\u00b4s it. It\u00b4s great and exciting, can\u00b4t we just be happy and have sex? Besides, you don\u00b4t have<\/em> a job. You have plenty left to strive for.”<\/p>\n ”Oh. Well. Yes. You\u00b4re right. Thanks for reminding me, I feel better already.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ”You know, if we get this house we have nothing left to strive for. We have arrived, everything is in place: we\u00b4re happily married, we have great kids and jobs and soon, maybe, we have the house we really wanted and where our kids will grow up. ”Sounds great to me.” ”It\u00b4s not great at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inenglish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}