Hey everyone, welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft. I'm your host Ashley, and today's episode is going to be a really fun and personal one because today I'm joined by somebody very special, my boyfriend Mike. Welcome Mike to the show.

Hi. Nice to meet you, everybody. Everybody listening. I'm Mike, and I'm really glad to be here. Yeah, thanks so much for joining today, Mike. We're going to be diving into what it's like being in a relationship where one person, such as myself,

practices witchcraft and Mike as the other person does not. So we'll be talking about everything

from first impressions and navigating spiritual differences to support and how we make it all

work. So I guess let's get started. Awesome.

All right, great.

Well, I'll start off with the first question that we have.

When you first told me you practiced witchcraft,

was it hard to bring up?

Yes, it was hard to bring up.

I had gone on dates previously with people through the years before you and I met.

And I had experiences where I just didn't tell anybody that I was

practicing. And I knew like within a couple dates that I should have told them from the

get go because it wasn't going to be cool with them. And then it just made things really hard.

So that's part of the reason why I decided to bring it up pretty early into when you and I met.

But it was also hard to bring up because sometimes it's hard to be like, hey, I have like,

you know, my grad degree. I'm working this like professional job. Also, I am a witch.

Like, you know, I didn't want you to think I was cosplaying Harry Potter or something.

So yes, it was hard to bring up, but I thought it was important

for you to know exactly who I was and who you were talking to and potentially getting into a relationship

with. No, definitely. I really appreciated the transparency that you had as far as just telling me

about that, like, pretty quickly. I think you mentioned it more to me because we met on the apps,

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