When you describe relationship between two people the way you did, you were so right. I still live a relationship like that after the 43 years of my being with my better half and it is so fulfilling and so fruit full even if we never had children. In 1979, two gay men could not adopt or have children through a surrogate like today.
We made a lot of progress as a society on this aspect, but we are going the wrong way for the environment and we have to wake up and get working, otherwise, the ark that we are living on will be lost for future generations.
Sorry for the pessimist that I am, but we have to be realist, it may be too late already. The big lobbies of coal, gas and petrol are corrupting our leaders, we have to vote for people who believe in the changes needed to correct a situation that will take a long time to be corrected. The children will have it worst than us sadly.
I like this story. it shows to a certain extent what they were leaving behind and the consequences of it.