I Secretly Boarded My Flight Attendant Wife’s Final Flight for Our Anniversary—Then the Captain Announced She Was Pregnant, and an Old Medical Result Made Me Believe the Worst

“I won’t.”

“What if you wake up at fifty and hate that we quit?”

“I won’t.”

She turned.

“You can’t know that.”

“No.”

I squeezed her fingers.

“But I know I don’t want the rest of our life to become punishment for not having the life we pictured.”