This is Cole,
he fell in love with
Charisma.
Cole: I slid into the DMs
and the rest is history.
Charisma: Very millennial 21st century but
it works.
Recently engaged
This couple is busy
planning their upcoming wedding.
Charisma: But I do have my dress
and we are getting married
December 19 of 2020.
But despite the upcoming nuptials,
people have continued to be critical
about their relationship.
Charisma: I get a lot more negative comments
than Cole does
and I think a lot of it is because
people don't want to pick on the guy in a wheelchair kind of thing
and so they just kind of come after me.
There's just so many.
I don't want to keep reading it.
Cole: Charisma does a lot for me
in the mornings
and the one thing I can do is get a shirt
on my own,
so let's see how smooth I can do this.
Sometimes it's pretty smooth,
other times,
not so smooth.
All right.
Perfect.
Oh,
I thought it was perfect. All right.
Nice.
Cole: My name is Cole Sydney.
Charisma: And my name is Charisma Davidson.
Why do you say like that do it again,
You said, "my name is Cole Sydney."
Cole: My name is Cole Sydney.
Charisma: And my name is Charisma Davidson,
Cole: And she's my fiancee.
We met Cole and Charisma a year ago.
Since then,
there's been a marriage proposal,
and Charisma
has taken on the role of Cole's full time carer.
Cole: I waited a really long time to have
Charisma, learn all of my care stuff.
I'm glad when the day came
and she learned that she was as open
and humorous and
cool about it as I had hoped.
Charisma: Okay,
get your shoes on.
Cole: I think it has
brought us closer together and
that's just
literally due to like
being closer.
We're literally close all the time,
Cole became a quadriplegic nine years ago,
after an accident at a local river.
Cole: I went with a few of my friends to the river
that runs through where we live.
And I was crossing the river at one point
and chose to dive in.
And as soon as I broke the surface of the water,
hit a rock just on the head,
and I was immediately paralyzed.
So that means for me,
is I can't use my hands
I can use my wrist but not my fingers.
I can't use my triceps so my arm just falls on me
and I can't stop that from happening.
And then obviously nothing from here down.
Due to his injuries,
Cole attended a rehab center
where he met Charisma.
Cole: She was working there as a rehab tech
eventually after this ball we both went to
she was looking real good and
that night I saw that she followed me on Instagram and I was thinking,
"Hmm, that might mean something."
So I followed her back, liked some pictures
she liked some of mine and then I slid into the DMs
and the rest is history,
Charisma: Very millennial 21st century but
it worked.
Cole and Charisma have become used to being noticed
when they're out together as a couple.
Charisma: Sometimes when we're out in public,
we do experience people staring at us,
and we never know why they're like,
Is it because we're in
you know, different races we're interracial
or is it because Cole is in a wheelchair and I'm not
and they're trying to figure out our relationship?
Is it because they recognize us from YouTube
or social media?
Or is it because we're just so dang good looking?
I don't know.
With over 300,000 subscribers
Cole and Charisma's YouTube channel
has proved infectious to many.
But that hasn't stopped the trolls judging their relationship.
Charisma: We do deal with trolls
in at first it was really hard to deal with,
just because it's new, like
no one is used to getting a bunch of negative comments
in their life. So
it was very new for us.
Cole: I think that they can say whatever they want
because they're not in front of you.
they're not in your face.
Cole wouldn't be with her if he weren't in a wheelchair.
Or
Cole, like, do you think you would be with her
if you weren't in a wheelchair?
And on the surface level,
like that's a very mundane question,
but if you think about it,
what is the only other factor there
if we were to take the wheelchair away?
It's race.
So there's undercurrents of
racism there.
Charisma: Sometimes I get a lot more negative comments than Cole does
And I think a lot of it is because
people don't want to pick on the guy in the wheelchair kind of thing and so
they just kind of come after me.
Cole: Some of these are so mean.
Charisma: I know.
Cole: Girl bot, "This is so fake"
"in a few years she will take her last check and run."
Are you about to run babe?
Charisma: With what check?
Cole: That's a good point. What check?
Oh man,
Charisma: Gold digger.
Cole: Does that one bother you?
where's the gold? I want to know if I can dig for it myself.
Charisma: There's just so many.
I don't want to keep reading it.
holy crap.
Did you even know that there were that many?
Cole: No.
Despite the negativity,
these two don't let the haters get them down.
Charisma: But lately things have been really good
and we have been getting a lot of positive comments.
The couple also have two big milestones on the horizon,
which they're looking forward to.
Charisma: We wanted to enjoy being engaged for a while
and not stress about the planning. So...
we started planning a few months after and then
I went wedding dress shopping pretty recently
so I have the dress.
Cole: So the most exciting news in our life right now
is we just bought our first home together.
Charisma: Welcome home.
Cole: Take a seat love.
Charisma: Yeah?
Cole: Welcome home.
Charisma:Welcome home for us.
Cole: Oh you're good?
Charisma: Yes.
Cole: It always put a smile on my face just coming in here and
seeing what's going to be our home forever. We're going to have an island here and
then this will be like our TV living room area.
The biggest project is going to be the addition on the master bed and bath.
And I think we should go back there and check it out.
Let's go.
Charisma: Yeah, we're in our room, our future room.
Cole: How does it make you feel?
Charisma: Excited.
Cole: So many of these trolls are
questioning our relationship we find comical because we know the love we have.
At the end of the day that's all we need.
We're just going to live our best lives and keep loving each other