What is it like working with your husband?

Back when we lived in LA, I had this vision board that hung in my closet. This was before children, when I still believed that scrapbooking my goals was a surefire way to manifest everything I wanted in life.

Sprinkled in with pictures of Rebecca Romijn in a bikini and five star resorts in Thailand, were shots of couples- not necessarily real life couples but like, men and women that did things as a team- actors on TV shows, Scarlet Johansson and Pete Yorn, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward… There was something about this camaraderie that appealed to me. Don’t ask me why. I don’t even recall seeing my parents together in photos let alone real life until I was at least fifteen. (Oops, in writing this sentence, I think I answered my own question.)

When I first met Jason, he had zero interest in being part of a “two hander”. He was protective of his career and success in that former child actor way. He was used to doing things on his own without the help of a drama club or team of traveling minstrels. He had grown up keeping his professional life and personal life separate and up until meeting me, it had worked for him.