My relationship with Jason started out as one continuous high. Everything was going so great for us. The connection we have together was overwhelming. We kept telling each other we felt things were going too unrealistically good for us. We both kept waiting for the blow of reality to knock us down. It never came.

We fell in love, got pregnant, got married, had Peyton, bought a car and a house, all in a years time.  All wonderful big good things. We had regular people struggles, but nothing tragic. As much as my Drs said I had a perfect pregnancy medically I was sick and crazy the whole time. Then on top of all that I had severe postpartum depression. 

In that short time with all the adjustments we had Jason and I fell into a period where we would go days without seeing each other. We worked opposite hours so Peyton was only at the sitters for 4 hours a day. It was tough never seeing each other. But we became a well oiled machine. When we did get a chance to talk it was about Peyton and how things were going with her. It was tough for us, going days at a time without being able to connect. 

When Peyton turned a year it seemed everything got so much easier over night. I don't know if it was we started a daycare and now work the same hours or if she just isn't an infant anymore. Maybe we just finally figured it out. But life seemed to slow down. I feel we have had more time for just Jason and I in the last two months then we had the whole year before that. 

All relationships go through periods of time like that. The business of life gets in the way of relationships. Nothing happened, it just slowly crept up on us. I'm not saying Jason and I fell out of love or didn't have any connection. Fairy tales do last forever. But sometimes it doesn't always feel like a fairy tale if you work for it.