How we first met
Elica: It was December 2014. The couple of weeks I had planned on staying had already turned into most of the year, with just a few months break mid-year.
Amitayus: I had been in Koh Phangan for about five years by then.
Elica: During this time there was a guy that was flirting with me, as they do there. He took me to an acro-yoga jam on the beach. And who was leading it? Yours truly. That’s how I first met Amitayus.
Amitayus: Very shortly after we met, I asked her out.
Elica: That was actually one of the ways that Amitayus tried to get me to date him: He would ask me to do acro-yoga with him.
Amitayus: She said no, she said wasn’t interested.
Elica: I was taking space and not seeing anyone, trying to heal from my break-up.
One day just around the time we first met, we bumped into each other outside the yoga hall and ended up sitting together and chatting. He was telling me how wonderful it is to have your heart broken. It sounded pretty terrible to me!
Amitayus: I was quoting from Gibran’s book ‘The Prophet’ on love.
Elica: We then started talking about kids and I asked him how he would expect to manage kids in an open relationship? I can’t remember what his answer was but I remember saying again, “That sounds terrible,” and him saying, “No, that sounds great!”
