Whereas Gil would be more like "If we're sharing a lab, I won't mind if you're working on your own projects . . . and if you don't make me bear any children we might have, I promise to build a nanny to take care of them."

Hee! This could be a fandom where mpreg works. I can just see Agatha creating a machine to gestate the babies. Have you read any Lois McMaster Bujold? She writes sci-fi and there's a decent focus on ovarian replicaters and population control with archic versus modern methods.

I'll make the buttons.