Their story starts in high school, but this is no high school sweetheart fairytale. They didn’t date in high school, and though they knew each other, they had never actually spoken to each other. That would all change on December 19, 2015. He was out with his guys while she was getting ready to go to a party celebrating her birthday. Fate would bring them together when Dontae and his friends were denied entrance into a club. Dontae is now riding as a passenger with his friend Jamal, they start to head home, but Jamal calls a friend to wish her a happy birthday. They stopped by her hotel to visit her before she went out. After a bit of back and forward flirting, they take pictures, and she uses that opportunity to send herself the images while also giving him her number. From then on, they talked every day. She would visit him every day before she went to work. A month from the day they met, they started dating. In March, they went on their first of several vacations together when they went to Miami. The two grew together from the time they first met. They eventually moved in together. June 7, 2020, Dontae asked her to marry him, and she said Yes! Now, they have degrees, four children, and their own home.