Relationships Are Not Perfect. We Are All Human.

One thing I think people forget sometimes is that there are real humans on both sides of a surrogacy journey.

Humans who get busy.

Humans who overthink.

Humans who forget things.

Humans who worry.

Humans who have bad days.

Humans who occasionally say the wrong thing.

Yet when people first match, there can sometimes be this unspoken hope that everything will just click perfectly from the beginning and stay that way the entire journey.

Real relationships rarely work like that.

Friendships do not.

Marriages do not.

Families do not.

Surrogacy relationships do not either.

One thing I have learned over the years is that healthy relationships are not built because nothing ever goes wrong. They are built because people communicate, give each other grace, and keep showing up when little bumps happen along the way.

Sometimes a text gets missed.

Sometimes life gets busy.

Sometimes someone feels hurt by something that was never intended to be hurtful.

Sometimes expectations do not quite match reality.

That is not necessarily a sign that the relationship is failing.

It is usually a sign that real people are involved.