“I really had to learn to live with myself again. A bit like a calf that wobbles on its own feet. Sounds dramatic, but that’s how it really felt sometimes,” says Welmoed about the breakup. Doing nothing during the lockdown was hard for her. “Now I’m alone and I’m with my own thoughts. In the beginning I noticed that I constantly tried to avoid that and I planned my days completely full. But now it works better and I kind of embraced it.”
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As a ‘true romantic’, the former participant of Who is the mole? open to a new love, although she is not against being alone for a while. “I’m doing a kind of comparative research and figuring out who suits me and what I’m looking for in a relationship. ‘You’ll be late with that on your 31st’ you could say. But ‘better let as net’, we say in Friesland.”
She has already had some dates with people she met through a dating app, but Welmoed thought that was ‘terrible’ and ‘terrifying’. “It feels so unnatural to sit across from a complete stranger and find out if you’re right for each other. Let me flirt in the bar.”
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You can read the whole interview with Welmoed Sijtsma in the latest Beautiful world. The issue will be in stores from Wednesday 2 March.
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