What was your hardest parenting or partner moment? – Dana
I’ve thrown a cheeseburger at Daniel’s head while he was driving 80 mph on the freeway. I’d say that was a low point in our relationship. On our honeymoon, I stopped playing Scrabble “because I didn’t feel like it” and that almost caused a rip in the space-time continuum. And our muddled attempt at communication for the first few years of our marriage was downright hysterical. His Aspie traits and my desire to control everything tried to tango and let me tell you, it doesn’t work.
Most of that can be chalked up to naivety, youth, and DANIEL DOING ALL THE WRONG THINGS my need to learn to chill.
The hardest moment in our relationship was when I suffered with depression. We felt alone, scared, and uncertain about the black cloud that always followed me. Daniel yearned to fix the problem. I wanted to be able to simply breathe.
We found a few moments of calm in the storm and I will always treasure those. It was comforting to remind each other that we were on the same team and that we’d get through whatever hell this was. And we did. Bravely. And on the other side of that dark chapter, we’re better together.