I loved math while in high school. Then I took a couple of years off from school to enter the work-force. 

I started to rapidly lose my math skills.

Now I'm in college, and math is getting easier again, but I'll never like it as much as I did before. 

My problem solving, and critical thinking skills increased while my math skills deteriorated, but it's probably growing more mature, and having new experiences that made that happen. 

I still don't rule out the possibility that distancing myself from math helped though. Considering math is abstract, and intangible, and I didn't start thinking about abstract concepts again until I started learning computer programming.