The DINK lifestyle can look straightforward from the outside: two incomes, more flexibility, fewer built-in obligations, and a lot of choice. But more choice doesn’t automatically create more peace, and freedom can bring its own weird mental knots. Many couples feel grateful and unsettled at the same time, confident and questioned at the same time, calm and restless at the same time. That doesn’t mean anything is wrong. It often means this life asks for more self-definition than the default script.
