Eicca Toppinen and Marianne Lindbeck got to know each other in 2018.
Over the past few years, cellist Eicca Toppinen’s life has changed a lot. The long marriage ended, he sobered up and a new partner entered his life through Instagram messages.
Today, Toppinen lives together in Oslo by Marianne Lindbeck with. Toppinen is enjoying his life in Oslo and things with Marianne are “going well”.
– I’ve learned the habit of not making far-reaching plans, but rather see where life leads. I have main guidelines in life, where I aim to go, Toppinen describes.
Eicca is having a great time in Oslo. Mikko Huisko
Easy life
Eica and Marianne have a 17-year age difference. Toppinen doesn’t think about age issues anyway, so the age difference is not an influencing factor in their relationship.
– I generally don’t think about people’s age. I never thought we had to be a certain way at a certain age. I don’t consider myself to be any age either, he says.
– For me, the decisive thing is if a person has an open mind and a desire to look at the world as it actually appears.
Eica has two sons from a previous union. He feels closer to his children than ever before. Mikko Huisko
Toppinen continues by saying that an open mind and a similar worldview have played a big role in his and Marianne’s relationship.
– Let’s say that living and being together is easy, problem-free and we see things as things. We are ready to change the perspective, so that you can see a perspective other than your own, Toppinen opens.
Not for teasing
Toppinen can’t directly say what things he would have learned from Marianne, but he has learned several things about himself through the relationship.
– Maybe in this life situation I have learned to give up excessive seriousness, cynicism and I am more playful and positive. It is not solely the merit of any one person, but is the combined effect of many aspects of life and processes. Of course, the partner plays a significant role in what kind of space I get for my own processes, says Toppinen.
– I have been given space for my own processes and thanks to that, I have dived pretty deep into many such reflections on the depths of being human. I haven’t had any restrictions in that, he continues.
Eicca is grateful that she has had space for her own processes in her relationship. Mikko Huisko
Toppinen hopes that every person would have the opportunity to explore their innermost self. He is grateful that his own journey has begun and is well underway.
– I don’t worry or think too much about the past. Maybe the people close to me would have benefited if I had made the research trip earlier. However, I hope that this positive development that I experience in myself is also a positive development for the people around me.
– Things that have gone to hell have gone to hell and there is a reason for that. I can’t bear to look back, because I’ve looked back enough and just tried to learn from my mistakes, Toppinen concludes.