"Before what?" John asks. "I've never been married."

He'd wanted to marry Jessica, he'd had every intention of asking her, but then the Towers had come down and his entire life had shifted. Leaving the CIA had been impossible for him after seeing that, after knowing how the world was going to change.

And he's considered it here in Darrow, wondered if it's something Karen might want, but for now he's content to simply live with her. That alone had been a big step for him, a significant change to how he's always lived, sharing his personal space with someone.