ReFraming Life

A close friend gave me a set of coasters after my first marriage ended. One of them had a simple phrase: "Love like you'll never get hurt." I set it on our living room table and watched it sit there for weeks, right in front of Adel. Because she was building a wall around her heart, one brick at a time — and I had made a quiet decision. For every brick she put up, I was going to rip out three.

In this episode, you'll hear what it looked like when Adel began testing me, and the raw conversation where she finally admitted she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

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I pulled my hands away when she reached for me across that Starbucks table… Twenty-four hours after our first date ended, we were already together again — sitting across from each other at a Starbucks table, laughing, soaking in what felt like the most natural thing in the world. And then she reached across the table to hold my hands. I pulled away. In her eyes, I saw something I never wanted to put there — the quiet hurt of someone who thinks they are being turned away. What she didn't know yet was that I wasn't pulling away because I didn't want this. I was pulling away because I had never felt anything this big before in my life.

In this episode, you'll hear about that second date, the speakerphone call with my parents, the moment that told Adel everything she needed to know about who I was, and the honest conversation that may have saved our entire story before it had barely begun. 

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What happens when you finally meet your soulmate… and one day, they’re gone?
In this opening episode of My Soulmate Named Adel, I share the true story of how Adel and I met online, the instant connection that felt like destiny, and an 8-hour first date that changed everything I believed about love.
You’ll hear:
• How rewriting my dating profile like a “manifestation list” led to one message that changed my life
• The moment we both wondered, “OMG… do you think we might be soulmates?”
• Our first phone call, her unforgettable accent, and the line that stopped me in my tracks: “How can you miss someone you’ve never met?”
• The countdown to meeting “IRL,” why we kept moving the time earlier, like excited school kids
• Our first embrace at the restaurant door… and why Adel later said, “You had me at the a** grab.”
• The 8-hour first date, the roses for her and her daughters, and the drive home, where I felt like I was floating in heaven
This is where our love story begins.