LOL.

Believe me, I was just as shocked as anybody when it first started happening. When I introduced the two of them, I wasn’t thinking about that at all. I didn’t even consider it a possibility. I was just like: Here’s two people who are super-important in my life—why don’t they meet and become friends? And even though we were all vibing at that first dinner we had together, I had no idea that like, that was gonna happen.

I mean, I love it. I think they’re absolutely great together. It’s like I said, you know, Bob has this way of just listening to you—he’s super grounded and human—and I think my mom really needed someone like that. Especially after all the shit with my dad, she just needed someone who was confident and self-assured and had his own thing going on, and more than anything, you know, I think she needed someone who would actually be available to her, you know? Someone who had the space to look at her and be with her and be like: What’s going on with YOU? What’s happening inside of YOUR head? So I’m not surprised that they got along so well. My mom and I are very similar, ultimately—I think we respond to the same kinds of things in people.

Not to mention, like, it’s super-hard for someone like my mom to date, because everyone’s a total freak about who her son is. I mean, yeah, it’s hard for me to really meet people and have an honest conversation with them, but like, it’s also really hard for my mom—maybe even harder—because all these people sort of glob onto her when they find out who she is, and they don’t even want to talk to her about HER, you know? They just want to talk to her about this person she’s connected to. It’s like they think she’s an extension of me—like she’s my regional office. And at least when they’re doing that shit to me, I’m still the focus of their attention.

So, a little while after that first dinner together, I started to hear from Bob or my mom that they were having lunch together, and then I’d hear they were going out to coffee, and then I’d hear they were having dinner just the two of them or like, going on a hike up in the Santa Monica Mountains, and eventually I was just like: Guys, what’s going on here? I sort of confronted them about it when we were all hanging out together at my place. And they both sort of smiled, like, a little embarrassed, and they were both sort of looking at each other like: What do we say? And I was just like: Whoa, really? And they both just sort of looked at me, like: Is that okay? And I was just like: Of course! Wow. Amazing.

And it was actually super-cute, you know? I mean, my mom was just so happy—like, I’d honestly never seen her so in love the whole time she was with my dad—and Bob was just like a little boy. Here was this incredibly intelligent dude, this guy who’s sort of my guru, and I just got to see him, like, smiling and blushing like a little kid with a crush. And they were clearly so relieved to tell me, you know, because I think they were worried about how I might react. I think they were worried it might make me uncomfortable, or like, I might want them to stop. But, of course, I was all for it. I mean, I was worried about what would happen if they broke up or ended up hurting each other, but it was pretty clear after a while that they were both in it for the long haul and that they weren’t taking any of it lightly. You know, my mom had been divorced from my dad for almost a year now, and Bob had been married a few years back, and so this wasn’t their first rodeo. They both knew how to navigate the waters.