- My name is Olivia and I'm from Miami, Florida.
My parents are not together.
My mom and my stepdad were together, though.
I saw my stepdad buy my mom this new truck.
That was it, that's what I thought love should be.
As I got older, I started to realize,
it's about having a friendship.
There's certain things you're not gonna do,
because you respect this person as a friend.
- My name is Rubin, I'm from Miami.
My mom has five kids.
And there's three girls ahead of me, I'm the first boy,
then I have a younger brother.
My stepfather, love that man to death,
to marry my mom with four kids living in the house with her,
that guy is the epitome of a man.
- Rubin and I met in elementary school.
We also went to the same middle school,
high school, and college.
When I met Rubin, I might as well not have seen him.
Sorry, his sister and I are at the same age.
So it was her little brother, you know what I mean?
- I was super skinny, you know?
So I was like, what, nobody checking for me.
- Weren't you in the band?
- Oh and I was in a band.
Oh ho ho! Okay, I got it, really?
- I mean, you were in the band, come on!
- Alright, Liv, my mom didn't want her sons
playing football or anything like that.
She didn't want us playing sports.
We always had this friendship but it was never anything
on a level to where it was like,
okay, well I need to try to Liv,
but in college, we would see each other all the time.
It was like, oh my goodness, is this the same Liv?
Gorgeous.
- He got muscles.
He got muscles.
That's when my first thought of dating came.
It was the muscles.
It was the muscles that did it.
You know, we would just always go eat.
That was our thing.
Going to eat and going to karaoke.
Like, we just did it all the time.
- [Rubin] We just clicked.
- And then you started singing songs with messages.
Why do I feel this way.
- [Rubin] Yeah, yeah.
- Why does she stay?
- I don't think we really asked each other about going out.
It was-- - We just did it.
- We just did it.
- It just sort of felt right, you know?
We be hanging out at my place watching TV,
and I'm very very anal about cleanliness.
I don't like shoes in the apartment.
And he would never take his shoes off at the door.
So whatever he was wearing
or whatever he would track in from outside,
it would just be all over the floor.
Shaving, little hairs, I'm sorry,
but you take forever to tell a story.
And he can't sing.
But he loves to sing.
Cannot sing.
- Make-up.
Make-up.
In traffic, driving up and it's just a road,
"Oh, I gotta do my make-up."
It was like, why?
I hate when people burn rice.
- Did you really have to just say that I burned rice.
Did you really?
- What you want me to say? Eggs?
- Go ahead, go ahead, I want you to just be like,
"Oh no, you know, she's totally perfect."
See, now I'm gonna go through my list again.
Why you have to say that?
We're not.
There's love there, there's love there,
but not romantically in love.
This guy.
We dated for six months
and we stopped dating earlier this year.
I think it didn't work because my level of expectation
from him started to get too high.
- When she wanted me to do something more than
I guess, the relationship required.
She would go talk to her friends.
She didn't come to me.
She went to them, and I just couldn't appreciate that.
- I know how I feel, I'm very in touch with myself
and I can express it very well.
He's a complete opposite.
If he's upset, it's like, pulling teeth.
I just thought it would've been better for us to just
go back to where we were when we were good.
Somebody asked me, if I loved you, I can't say no.
- And same here.
We just care for one another.
You know, and that's just our relationship.
- Yeah.
- Nothing more, nothing less.
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