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A love story:

First, we met on the dance floor at this place playing loud music.

Soon after we were madly in love!

Before I knew it, we were engaged to be married.

Now, here I am in the backyard turning over soil for her garden instead of playing cards with my friends or enjoying the multitudes of brain-bending puzzles on my favorite website. Oh well, she's worth it.

One day, after she had had a visit to her "special" doctor, I came home from work to find her sitting at my poker table with a big smile on her face.

I said, "Do you have any news?"

She nodded convulsively.

"When are we due, honey?"

That's when things got hairy.

"Well," she said, "seeing as how you spend every waking moment that you can on that damn Puzzling website or playing cards with your buddies instead of spending time with me, I've decided to torture you."

My smile lost some of its intensity. Through gritted yet still-smiling teeth I managed to ask, "Whatever do you mean, my little buttercup?"

"Don't give me any of that crap, Buster! I'm not telling you the due date until you figure out my own little puzzle. Once you solve the puzzle I have made here, then I will tell you our due date. To reemphasize, this puzzle has nothing to do with the due date, do you understand?"

I gulped and nodded.

Then she handed me a piece of paper which had this information on it:

• March 12, 2019


• June 18, 2019


• June 25, 2019


• September 10, 2019


• December 10, 2019

What is the answer to her puzzle?

The introductory paragraph is a clue to

A pack of cards. The lines point towards CLUB, HEART, DIAMOND, SPADE. There are also a few other pointers (e.g. poker table)

As Arnaud has pointed out

The dates represent the 11th, 25th, 26th, 37th and 50th Tuesdays in 2019. Converting these numbers into cards (using the order of suits defined above) we get Jack of Clubs, Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts, Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Spades. As a poker hand this is Three of a Kind, so perhaps our couple are expecting triplets. The hand could also be taken as a representation of the family: King = dad, Queen = mum, 3 Jacks = 3 sons.

The answer could be

ESTER

Which I believe would mean that

Your wife has chosen a name for the baby.

For the reason that

The first of these Tuesdays is the 11th tuesday of the year; the second is the 25th, and so on resulting in the sequence: $$11, 25, 26, 37, 50$$
If you set $$1=A, 2=B,ldots, 26=Z,qquad 27=A, 28=B,ldots$$ this gives the word $$KYZKX$$
which after a $-6$ Caesar shift gives $ESTER$.

It's a TWIN

as

All these days fall on Tuesdays.
Tuesday = 2's day.
So, she might me pointing that due date will be 2's day as she is having a twin.

Looking back at the events that have been mentioned in the story-line:

There are 5 major events mentioned, and 5 dates given to him by his wife. So, I would think those are the dates to those 5 events.

So,

First, we met on the dance floor at this place playing loud music. => March 12, 2019

Then,

Soon after we were madly in love! => June 18, 2019

Then,

Before I knew it, we were engaged to be married. => June 25, 2019

Then,

Now, here I am in the backyard turning over soil for her garden instead of playing cards with my friends or enjoying the multitudes of brain-bending puzzles on my favorite website. => September 10, 2019

Then,

The 5th date, that is the only one remaining, December 10, 2019 is the due date.