“That first day together we didn’t fuck, we made love.”

Sexologist Raquel Tulleuda has always found the chemistry she shares with her husband, Adrià, quite inexplicable. "After twenty-two years, I look at him and see those eyes, the color of which I still don't know. He smiles at me, and I melt," she says. They met because Tulleuda visited her restaurant in Sant Pere Pescador a couple of times, and even then "there were a few glances." On April 23rd, she received a text message from a number she didn't recognize: "I'm Adrià," and a rose emoji.

They met again at a dinner party hosted by the innkeeper's grandfather, with whom Tulleuda had some mutual friends. That night, Adrià told her: "Maybe you don't have to leave, there are rooms here." "There were no rooms," says the sexologist, "just his, but, despite suspecting it, I was enchanted. That first day I had the feeling that we were making love. We weren't fucking, we were making love."

A few days later, they were alone in the restaurant. On the radio, Good luck to us, by Lluís Llach, and with the verses "If you come with me, don't ask for a smooth road," they both burst into tears. "It was a premonitory feeling; for me it was as if I knew that with that person I would make a journey, and that it would be something very magical, visceral, and irrational." "It was the song that played at the wedding, and this morning, before conducting the interview, I played it while we were cuddling in bed, and the little tear fell again," says Tulleuda.

The road, she explains, hasn't been smooth because life isn't. "We've always pedaled to get ahead, we've had three children despite going through infertility, and we've had financial and family problems. Adrià comes from a difficult place; he's the only child of a family where the father committed suicide. This makes him a very complex person, both enigmatic and patriotic, with many people, with many people. We've had to talk a lot to understand each other." "I think younger couples have lost a bit of the ability to weather the storm. It's another thing if your partner is a jerk, but if you have faith in the essence of the relationship and in the person, the storm passes and you can even build the relationship from a different, richer place." Or, as the song says: "If you come with me, don't ask for a smooth road, nor silver stars, nor a tomorrow full of promises, just a little luck, and that life gives us a long way."