Oh My God

Adele first started dating charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki in 2011, then gave birth to their son the following year. The couple married in 2018, but separated several months later, sending Adele into a deep depression. She spent the next year as a stay-at-home mother as she struggled with anxiety and panic attacks. This song takes place the first time Adele went out with some girlfriends once her mental issues waned.

The song captures Adele's interior conflicts as she starts to date again following the breakdown of her marriage. Wish that I would let you break my walls But I'm still spinning out of control from the fall Adele didn't feel ready to open herself up to someone else.

The thought of socializing and flirting with men she'd never met before terrified Adele. This is trouble, but it feels right Teetering on the edge of Heaven and Hell Is a battle that I cannot fight The song takes place in LA, where many of the single men are after casual sex rather than a proper relationship. "I wasn't ready to start dating anyway," Adele told Audacy's Julia, "but I was scared that if I did, that I would probably make some really bad decisions because I wasn't ready."