Editing Nico's Youth Group Years (section)

=== Damaris ===
In early 2022, a romantic dynamic developed between Nico and Damaris, a young woman in the youth group. What began with prolonged eye contact and flirtatious table football games evolved into lengthy phone conversations and eventually a relationship. On June 12, 2022, they officially became a couple; on June 18, Pastor Daniel Exler gave them his blessing.

Nico now describes this period with regret. He knew from the beginning that it was not right, that she was not the one, but he convinced himself otherwise. When doubts arose, he dismissed them as "attacks from the devil." They had disagreements about worldviews—she had been influenced by mainstream narratives about vaccinations and politics that Nico considered brainwashing. The relationship was, in his own words, "cringe" and "childish garbage." But at nineteen, caught up in the social dynamics of the youth group, he continued.