Following the death of best-friend-turned-partner , Consume Pray Love writer Elizabeth Gilbert didn’t have to check too far on her after that beloved — looks like, her newest “sweetheart” was indeed truth be told there all along.

On Monday, which Gilbert considered “an attractive spring season day in [her] corner of the world,” the self-proclaimed “seduction “addict” chose to present the woman supporters to your “beautiful guy” with who she has fallen in love: photographer Simon MacArthur. Per the caption close to an image from the cuddling lovers, MacArthur ended up being a “beloved friend” of her late lover Rayya Elias , additionally the a couple of all of them “adored both forever like siblings.” This, Gilbert proclaims, “means the entire world to [her].”

Even though the commitment is new, she truly, actually likes him:

Lately, Simon and I also have found our very own solution to each other’s arms. Now right here our company is, and his heart was these a cozy place for me to secure. We communicate this development openly, even though our really love story can be so new and youthful and sensitive, for a few reasons.

From inside the caption, she additionally starts a discussion about normalizing all types of really love: if you are heterosexual, when you are queer, when you are a widow, if you are middle-aged. “It is all okay, and it’s really all impractical to get a handle on, and it’s really all an adventure that I would personally maybe not overlook,” she produces, before signing off with a heart emoji.

So, she says to her followers: “if you see myself walking on with a high handsome guy on my arm, avoid being buggin’.”

She — “your girl” — is actually delighted, ok???