I know you know. [ And he feels it too. Not as strongly, he never really thought about the possibility of having kids before he met her and even then it was tentative. Something he wasn't ready to fully commit to, for so many reasons and only a few of them had to do with the prison. It's easier for him, he guesses. It was never part of the plan. ]
It's... hard. As long as we're here, it's not going to stop being hard.