Originally Posted by Seattlenerd

It turns out the value of my ticket and my spouse's ticket have to be reused separately -- they can't be combined as they are two different ticket numbers -- so that has effectively solved for me, at least, the problem of having too high a value to reuse all at once. The two trips I cancel (mine and spousal unit's) I then re-book as two different trips for myself in the future, and no change fees result.