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Somebody asked me last week why we would "choose" to live on one income when two would be so much easier. Easier for what, exactly? The DINK couples I know have beautiful apartments and Sunday brunches. What they usually don't have is anyone depending on them, shaping them, or forcing them to grow up. Our home is loud. It is expensive in a different way. But every single day it is producing something a bigger paycheck never could: children who know how to read, how to argue well, how to love their neighbor, and how to run a household of their own someday. Augustine talked about ordo amoris, rightly ordered love. Some things are worth more than money because they were never supposed to be measured in money in the first place. Which household are you building?