Giel has changed his lifestyle quite a bit in the past two years: from smoking weed, sleeping badly, to a healthy diet, lots of sports and no more joints.
This tipping point has also made him feel more ‘mature’ now and would approach a future relationship differently: “I’ve had three long relationships that all followed the same pattern: the first months I was just super in love and then I felt I had such a connection that I could just get on with my life and especially start working very hard again. To which those women asked why I suddenly sent fewer messages.”
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He continues: “Which I felt was an insult, because we were goddamn connected, weren’t we? But I did anyway. I wouldn’t do that now. I don’t want to miss myself anymore, put myself completely at the service of someone else .”
Giel also says that he no longer finds talking about children, or even the arrival of them, so scary: “I never wanted children, because I was afraid of that responsibility, but Jan Geurtz (writer, ed.) says: “A child is and remains an individual. It is not yours.” I find that thought so relaxed, I wish I had known that sooner. It’s not happening at the moment and I still find that responsibility scary, but I wouldn’t shy away from it now.”
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The radio DJ is therefore open to a new relationship, in fact, Giel is currently actively dating. With whom is unknown, but he firmly believes in relationships: “We humans must be connected with others.”
You can read the whole, candid interview with Giel from Wednesday in the new LINDA..
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