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Gabriella and Mariano met in a postural yoga class. It went for her cervical spine and he went for her lumbar spine. “I know it’s very romantic,” she says with a half smile. The classrooms were like a waiting room for coffee in the corner, sometimes four or five of them, but other times just two of them.
She, divorced with one child, and he married with three children, immediately found themselves immersed in passionate conversations about parenting, the vicissitudes of modern life, and various spiritual questions. Gabby could see his subtle flirtation, but she pushed away any romantic thoughts; You decided long ago to have light, healthy relationships free of lies.
“All my life I’ve had complicated romantic relationships.” I confess. “Of course, my marriage was complicated, and divorce makes it clear. But before I got married I had difficult partners. Or rather, unequal spouses. There were three of them. All three were married, and all three said they would leave everything to me, and in the end, well, in the end it all blew up.”
“And so it was again,” he continues. “A married man in front of me, the game, the fire, the hidden attraction. The talk that simulated friendship and made me rush to help. Because Mariano, like the others, had too much mambo and I felt like I could pull him out of his paralysis.”
The first serious, though unconscious, card was played when she recommended taking a Reiki session with her, as it “promotes stress and anxiety reduction and will help you free yourself and find your way to emotional healing.” Gabriella, as a requist, really believed that Mariano needed to touch some strings to make the changes he longed for – she told him. He wasn’t doing well in his personal life, at work he was feeling sluggish, but most importantly he was sleeping with deep pain.
The first session went great and Mariano told him it was “new”. He immediately confirmed that he wanted to repeat the following week, and Gabriella told him with a certain innocence that she would gladly wait for him: “By then we were already very friends, or so we felt, we had told each other our whole lives and I really wanted to help him. I saw him as sad and boring, and because of what I was doing, I could help him be better.
Between yoga, coffee and reiki, flirting is no longer hidden. Mariano told him without a filter that he loved him very much, while Gabriella silenced him with, “Man, you’re married.” Fix your problems at home and then we’ll see.
“I didn’t really want to get into such a complicated story, but I started to feel very strong things,” she says. “However, I stood firm. I wanted to somehow show myself that the past can come to me, but this time I will not repeat history. So, it’s been six months and nothing, bah, everything. Each time we got to know each other and loved each other more.
All emotional balance and physical control were broken on the day when Gabriella organized a sound bath session and Mariano stayed after hours for a glass of wine. “Does your wife know you’re here?” I asked him, and he replied, “She knows something about yoga, about Reiki, about this and about you.” Gabriella, you’re doing so well with me and I’m in love. With my wife things are over. I want to be with you.
Gabriella did not ask further, for some reason feeling that Mariano’s answer meant something completely different from what she had experienced in her relationships up to that point. She always got into episodes full of lies, hiding, and the dark side of being the lover waiting for a promise that never came true. But this time…this time it looked like there were no masks. Gabriela felt that knowing about Mariano’s wife was a green signal to let her guard down.
“I had what to this day is considered the most exciting encounter with a man in my life,” he reveals. “The imbalance returned to my life, although this time I thought things were different, and that I was walking hand in hand with the truth.”
Everyone knows about them. In addition to yoga, coffee in the corner and reiki, trips to his home in a small town on the coast were added. Gabriella entered this delicious world in which she felt like the chosen, spoiled person, who lived a love story that no one had ever experienced before in her life. He always sticks to saying, “My wife knows about you.”
And so, the months passed, the summer came and flew, the leaves fell, and the winter came harsh, not because of the weather, but because of the comprehension of the only truth: Gabriela was repeating the story, Mariano did not make any profound transformation, and yes, his wife knew everything, but without the details: “This became clear to me the day he showed up after a yoga class that Mariano did not attend.” Related.
“She asked me if I was Gabriella, she introduced herself and the world collapsed on me. She told me that Mariano had told her that we were friends and that he had done two Reiki sessions with me. She was horrified and continued: ‘You’re doing very well, he’s happy again. I guess that’s not the only thing going on between you two, is it?’
Today Gabriella is 49 years old and says that 2025 was her year of transformation. Mariano, her last love, had a lot to do with it, although the story with him was the same as always, with a different face, a different way of dressing, and a different color of eyes. But even though he tripped over the same stone over and over again, There was something new about Mariano: he was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Never before had a wife stood before her. Never before had she believed so strongly that she would be the one this time. Mariano didn’t say everything, he told half-truths, and his wife only assumed the rest. Gabriella realized that she had not escaped the mechanics of the lies and felt ashamed.
He concludes, “For the first time, I was the one who finished the story without fighting to change the situation and save it. For the first time, I think I tripped over the same final stone.”
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