On January 27, 2023, I'm so grateful my best friend from yoga now — the yoga crush girl — is back today at the Friday Power Flow. We again put our mats next to each other, and I'm so turned on and excited I'm about to pass out. This is insane.
The question I couldn't answer honestly
After class, she puts her blocks away, and she looks at me, and she says, "What's exciting in your life today?" And I feel like I've just got hit with a rainbow, or a unicorn just stabbed me and blew up all kinds of energy and colors all over the place. And at the same time, I'm screwed up. I can't even respond properly, because if I just blurted out the truth and said "you," then what happens after that? If I just tell her the truth and say there's absolutely been nothing as exciting as you in my life for a lifetime, for a long time — where do we go from there? That starts to feel dangerous.
So I'm desperately trying to clear her out of my mind for a second and come up with another answer, especially if it could involve my wife. After awkwardly stumbling over my words for a minute, I tell her that I finally got my wife to come to a yoga class, which was just yesterday. I'm so excited that after trying to get my wife to come here for yoga for like a year, she finally did come with me. And it seems like she can sense that I gave a politically correct answer and was a little diversionary.
Wouldn't that be disgustingly awkward?
But then she continues talking to me and says that she would love to meet my wife, and we should all come to the same class one day. And I thought, wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be disgustingly awkward for me? I would just love to see how that would go. And I'm thinking, no, I definitely need to keep my wife away from her. And yet, if I want her to be able to move in, we do all need to get to know each other. So I am trying to get my wife to go to the same class and get us all in the same class at the same time.
But my wife's work schedule — she doesn't want to do that Friday morning or the Sunday morning class, because she has a kids' Sunday morning. And Friday morning, she has her work to do and other things, like either the kids with school or she goes to her own class. So she's been resistant to coming to the Friday one. I was lucky to even get her out for a date yesterday to go to the one at noon. If you want the longer version of how that crush started, I told it in the yoga girl date story.
Euphoria, and the people who got concerned
Then we walk out to the car and say, see you later. I'm at the AA meeting again. And again, absolute euphoria. I walk in as usual, like 15 minutes late, and share how great my life is going and how excited I am about this girl at yoga and the crush. And now people are starting to look a bit concerned and talking to me afterwards about remembering my wife and my kids. And I'm playing them off. I'm like, look, this is just a friend. I don't have her last name. I don't know her phone number. There's no harm here. No harm, no foul at all here. Chill. I think everybody's overreacting.
But inside, if anything, they might be underreacting. Because what's exciting in my life? I know what's exciting in my life. If you want to follow more of these honest moments from the same season of my life, you can watch them in my Dating playlist.