The SO has always looked at my desire to pay off the mortgage as a personality quirk. Where my parents paid off the mortgage soon after I was born, I think the other side only finished paying off their mortgage in the past 5 years or so.
Until last night, when they logged into that account (which they do on at least a monthly basis to populate the NW sheet), and realized that every sub-account has more money in it than is owing on the mortgage. Our taxes+efund is higher, our travel fund is higher (we have a big trip planned for the spring), and obviously the retirement account is higher. The conversation was a bit giddy.
It feels like we're now on the same page as to the possibilities, and I'm not just being humoured. (I'm not deluding myself, there still won't be any traction on dumping cable.)