How does a gossip columnist experience love?
This is how he met Núria Marín, his partner, with whom he has been for 25 years.
Gossip columnist Núria Marín is used to the great passions and disappointments of the country's celebrities, the dramas, the breakups, and the reconciliations. However, the roller coaster of the daily life of the tabloid press has nothing to do with her everyday life. She's been in a relationship with Juanlu for 25 years, whom she met at university. Marín began to notice him because of the presentations he gave in class. "He was very intelligent and spoke very well," recalls the journalist, who was delighted when they finally got together to make a short film. "I liked him more and more, and he didn't pay any attention to me. Using work as an excuse, I invited him over to get ahead on work. I kicked out my roommates to be alone with him, but nothing ever happened," Marín explains. "I couldn't be more obvious. Wasn't I picking up on the signs?"
One Christmas when Marín returned home to Vielha, he texted her that he had a date with a girl. "He started telling me as if we were friends, and I stopped him right away. I was very clear; I didn't want us to be just friends," the journalist explains. From that moment on, their relationship began to change. "We met up one weekend to watch movies together." The Exorcist, which is a film I've never been able to watch because it scares me to death. He told me we'd watch it together and that I'd really like it, that it was really good. At the time, we both thought we were David Lynch," she continues. The fact is that when they put the film on, the DVD player wasn't working, and "finally!" they got together. "From then on, everything happened very quickly. At 23, we were living together. We've grown together as people and as professionals; we support each other in every way, and I can't imagine a better life partner than him. He simply doesn't exist," she asserts.
Regarding why he made her wait so long, the journalist says that Juanlu believed she didn't want "a serious relationship." "All my life I've given an image of something I'm not; maybe that's my fault. I'm too normal and all," she says. "We're very homey and we hardly ever spend any money; we're too lazy to go on getaways and things like that. We spend the day talking, though." During the pandemic, we would spend two in the morning chatting on the couch: Juanlu will always be the smartest guy I know," she concludes.
