I am sure this may or may not have happened to the follow male language learning maybe the girls even, but last night I went to a Spanish meetup where I am from and had to opportunity of speaking with a very nice girl from Venezuela and upon trying to speak Spanish I could not say a single word.
My whole mind went blank and the only words that came to my head were English.
has this ever happened to anyone else?
in the future while I am still learning Spanish I need to avoid these kind of women as I cannot focus haha
Win-win situation, convince the cute girl to help you improve your Spanish and you’ll hit 2 birds with 1 stone 
It gets better with practice. I’m actually a lot more comfortable speaking to a pretty girl in her language than I am in English. It sort of gives me the opportunity to be a bit more extroverted.
For some of us, in the situation you just described, it took years even to get English to come out.
However, I think with an Aussie accent, pretty much ANY English will help you in this arena.
