So we are laying in bed right now, watching Cops. There are 5 teen girls downstairs having a sleepover and being gleefully loud. We will let the dogs out in a while and then lock the house up for the night. We love our life. We have been parents for a very long time and it’s become our identity. At some point, our relationship became redundant. Same thing day in and day out. We were not unhappy and didn’t even realize the redundancy had snuck in.
When we had that spontaneous topless drinking night, when we saw other people looking at us like we looked at each other when we first met, something was triggered. A rush that hadn’t been felt in a long time came back. We had just settled in to a comfortable rut begin parents, letting the excitement of each other fade to black. So we started talking. Starting google searching. Put a post on Reddit.
As the reactions came in and people responded and reacted, the ember’s began to glow brighter. The responses blew life into us both that had been vacant for a long time.
We’re cute. We’re fun. We love life. We had put all that on the back burner and raised a family.
Why take the pictures? Without knowing it would, it made the both of us feel like people again. We see the twinkle in each others eye that we haven’t seen in a long time.