Just a few weeks after a video saw them publicly confirm their relationship for the first time.
In a post on her social media account on Sunday, September 27, actress-filmmaker Bela Padilla gave a quick life update to her fans and followers.
Specifically about her love life and relationship with tech CEO Martin Tan, whom she had been dating for about eight months.
She opened her post by saying a piece directed to her supporters. “I feel extremely lucky that every time love finds me, you all seem genuinely happy for me.”
“Maybe it’s because I share what I can, and you’ve somehow come to know me as your friend who falls in love, gets heartbroken, and who you sometimes want to hug, scold, or grab a beer and cry with. Or maybe it’s because my movies have made us all believe in love a little bit again,” Bela continued.
The actress-filmmaker, who had just starred in the movie Life After You, then noted that it is the first relationship that she had where she was “truly swept off” her feet.
“We share the same love for films, food markets, our work, and, most of all, genuinely being together,” she noted.
Bela then told that she decided to keep things private about their relationship because it was also her first relationship where she felt “most like and unlike” herself.
“I’m writing this because we all enjoyed the videos of us in the Legazpi Market. We all saw a new couple, a bit shy and awkward,” she wrote, referring to the interview where they announced that they are together.
“But what you never got a glimpse of is us having the best and also hardest days for a couple of months now,” Padilla continued.
She then confirmed their separation, telling: “I’m deciding for both of us to move forward separately to save whatever we can of ourselves and how we see each other.”
“I think sometimes, loving someone also means knowing when to let go, before you lose the good things you saw in each other,” the actress said.
Bela went to describe Martin as one of the “most fun, smartest, and definitely most charming people” she had ever met. “I will always be grateful for what we shared, and I genuinely wish him nothing but the best,” she furthered.
And for her supporters, she also expressed gratitude.
“Thank you for rooting for us from afar, and for giving us the space when you saw us around and now to move forward separately,” she said.
In a post-script, she expressed that she decided to post something that would immortalize one night in their relationship.
