Almudena Cid continues trying to learn to live after the breakup of her marriage with the presenter Christian Gálvez, to whom she was together for more than a decade and who left her by surprise after falling madly in love with the presenter Patricia Pardo, with whom she is currently in a relationship .
A "bomb", in the words of the former gymnast, which completely changed her way of seeing life and the relationship she had had with Gálvez until then. This is how she has captured it in Walking without toes (ed. Vergara), as she has confessed to the magazine Hello!, where she has revealed some other detail about how her stormy relationship with the presenter was.
The gymnast acknowledges that when writing her new book she was not putting the person who needed it most first: herself. She also thought she hadn't been more intelligent by not seeing what was happening in her marriage. "I've been sad, enormously sad. I never thought she would feel that she was useless," she explains, revealing that there came a time when she even thought about taking her own life in her car.
"I was immature when it came to personal relationships," says the athlete, who points out the lack of communication as the key to their breakup. Of course, touching on a key issue such as having children causes something to be removed in Cid, who confesses that it hurt her to hear that he wanted to have children and she did not.
"I can't talk anymore," he says, cutting the subject off. Of course, he adds later that: "I thank life for not having been a mother. There was something in me that told me not to be, and I was right", he says, after reaching the conclusion that the end of that love may have been the best news. "Many people told me to be thankful they hadn't had children," she says.
The gymnast also misses the occasional detail about her new life that gives free rein to the imagination of what her married life or the break with the presenter could be like. For example, she could "decide what I want to do", since "a time had come when she didn't want to do anything in life". She now sees everything differently, and she is clear: "I am not going to sacrifice myself again."
Almudena Cid does not recognize the former soccer player and sports agent Gerardo Berodia as her new partner, although the images of the last few months speak for themselves; but the athlete is clear about what she wants in a new relationship: transparency, communication and, above all, that there is no stress between the couple. "I only ask not to live in tension. I need to continue to be relaxed and be who I am."
