- I grew up in a family.
My mom quite religious, my dad very scientific.
Spent most of my youth roaming the Rocky Mountains.
I caught my first fish at 18 months old
and it's just kind of been outdoors ever since.
- I grew up most of my life in Denver, Colorado.
I was a Navy brat, so we traveled around quite a bit.
My parents divorced when I was 13 years old.
It was quite a messy divorce.
You know, I didn't know what really a good relationship was,
but I knew what I grew up in was not
the kind of home life I wanted to have for a child.
So we went to high school together in Littleton, Colorado.
We first met when I was a freshman and he was a senior.
One night me and my best friend were out
roaming the neighborhoods walking out and about
and these two guys came up in their cool car, picked us up.
- The cool car was a '66 Chevy Nova, by the way.
It was a cool car.
- And we chatted with them for a little bit,
started driving further away from where we were headed.
And then they finally asked how old we were
and so we said 14, we were freshmen,
and they were like stop the car, get out.
And then he went and graduated.
He was going to the local community college.
And when I was a junior my other friend called
and said hey, Jason's having a party.
And he had had prolific parties
growing up through high school.
I had actually been to a couple of them.
And so I decided to go over that night.
- She walked in the door and in my head
it was like all the music like just stopped.
She was wearing this really cute like sailor outfit thing
and I was like wow, we're gonna pursue this.
- And we ended up chatting pretty much
sitting on the pool table all night
and then when I went to leave that night,
I went to get in my car and he gave me a kiss and asked me
if I had a date to my junior prom, which I did not.
So he asked if he could take me.
We went to prom two weeks later
and then that night after prom
I remember he said to me that next year,
we're gonna get a limo when we go to prom.
And I just kind of laughed and I was like
like we're gonna be together next year.
So we had been dating
for about three years and then we kind of decided
that we would try moving in together.
- I looked around, wanted to find
kind of a cool little pad for the two of us,
and it really was a nice one bedroom loft.
Now, I was ever the romantic.
We were sitting at a Bennigan's
and I looked across the table and I think
I took her by the hand and said, you know what?
I think we should get married.
How's that for a proposal?
At a Bennigan's.
Very classy.
I like to put the K in classy.
We were married in '95.
- We were married in '95.
And then it was Christmas of 1997
and he's like let's have a baby
and I'm like okay, let's start a family.
And needless to say, that night our son was conceived
and the next morning I woke up
and I kind of said oh, I don't know.
Maybe we should wait a little bit.
And it was too late.
- Too late.
He was born in September of '98.
- We found out she was pregnant Super Bowl Sunday
the year the Broncos beat the Packers
for their first every Super Bowl Sunday.
So what a great day for dad.
- Yes.
I was kind of more the working parent.
He worked, but he had more of a flexible schedule
so he was more of the caregiver of our son.
Once I kind of was like I'll have
another child when he's three.
Three came around, he's like okay, maybe when he's five.
- Yeah, life was just
so busy. - Five came around
and then I was like nope, we're not doing this.
We're just gonna have the one.
So we have our one son Brady and he's spoiled rotten.
- He is.
- He is, but we love him to death
and he is the light of our lives.
- Very much.
She would hate it when I would leave the cabinets open.
She literally emotionally beat me into submission that
I can't walk by a cabinet anywhere without closing it now.
And always in the back of my mind
when those cabinets are open and it's Brady,
I'm like why isn't he getting yelled at?
The obsessive need for order,
at times that can be a little, yeah.
- We are not. - We are not in love.
We actually divorced in 2011, so we're six years ago now.
- We currently live in the same house with our son.
That's mostly, most everyone knows,
California's a very expensive place to live.
- I think that people were shocked
cause we had such an amicable divorce.
We ended up actually our whole
family dynamic changed after that.
We became pretty much best friends
and had a whole new relationship with each other.
- I figure we had so much time invested in each other
it would be kind of silly to just throw all of that away.
We still get along and actually
I think probably happier now than--
- Than when we were married. - Than the last
maybe five or six years of married life.
My big takeaway from our relationship
is never put a constraint on what a relationship can be.
I think all that does is give you no room to grow and expand
as individuals and as a couple.
- If we communicated like we do now
before we had gotten divorced,
maybe things would have been different.
We would have had a closer relationship.
We definitely love each other, we're just not
in love with each other. - In love with each other.
- Which means making the dating
world finding that right person.
- Yeah, that's an
interesting conversation. - That can accept that.
- [Narrator] Soul Pancake.