on a moment's notice說走就走

When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to live together but not get married... because every time anyone we knew got married, it ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It's true. It's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids... Actually, my one girlfriend who has kids... Alice. She would complain how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn't even complain about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time... the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. Joe and I used to say we're so lucky. We have this wonderful relationship. We can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in. We can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice. Then one day I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon... because I promised to take her to the circus. And we were in the cab playing "I Spy." "I spy a mailbox. I spy a lamp post." And she looked out the window and saw this man and this woman... with these two little kids... and the man had one of the kids on his shoulders. And she said, "I spy a family." And I started to cry.

喬和我剛開始交往的時候，我們想要的東西完全一樣。 我們想住在一起，但不結婚…… 因為我們認識的人裡，只要一結婚，感情就毀了。 他們幾乎再也不做愛了。 這是真的。 這就是沒人會告訴你的秘密之一。 我常跟那些有孩子的女性朋友坐在一起…… 其實，我就那一個生了孩子的朋友……愛麗絲。 她會抱怨她和加里再也不做了。 她甚至都不算抱怨，只是平平淡淡地說出來。 她說他們整晚都睡不成，兩個人都一直累得不行…… 孩子把他們那點性衝動全給耗光了。 喬和我以前總說我們多幸運。 我們的感情多美好。 我們可以在廚房地板上做愛，不用擔心孩子走進來。 我們可以說走就走，飛去羅馬。 後來有一天，我下午帶著愛麗絲的小女兒…… 因為我答應帶她去看馬戲。 我們在出租車裡玩「我看見了」。 “我看見了郵筒。我看見了路燈。” 她往窗外看，看到一男一女…… 帶著兩個小孩…… 那個男人把一個孩子扛在肩上。 她說：“我看見了……一個家。” 我就哭了。