- How did my exes describe our relationship?
So we met at?
- Tinder.
- At the place she works at.
I went out one night and randomly
and ended up at her place of work.
- Who made the first move?
- She did.
- I think Gabby did.
- She made the first move for sure.
- What was the move?
- She slid in the Tinder DMs
- Gabby asked me if I was Dominican.
And I think a lot of people don't assume I'm Dominican.
So that's what caught me.
- She just came straight up to me
and just started talking.
- Their first impression of me?
- She was bad.
- How would you define bad?
- Stephanie stop.
- She came off as shy, which is not true.
- She's very attractive.
- They were attracted to my?
- Sense of humor and her tattoos.
- She has this amazing tattoo that says resistanza
which means resistance.
And that was like, wow, I need to get to know this person.
- Probably just her presence.
She's a very confident person.
She can really light up the room
- and I was attracted to their?
- That I'm good at art.
- I think my dimples
- I think my smile or I'm smart.
- They thought I looked like?
- Nobody.
- She looks like the Sky from Black Ink.
She's not going to like that.
But whatever.
- I don't think she looks like anybody. One of a kind.
- I've been told, like, I look like Mulan
but then I've also been told that I looked Pocahontas
So like, I don't really get it.
I thought they look like?
- Nobody. One of a kind.
- I don't think I look like anybody.
- I'll just get random people with locks
like Lisa Monet or something like that.
- My type is?
- Funny, more masculine presenting
- Athletic tall, even though I'm not tall
- It's more a vibe.
Definitely cool people for sure.
- Sporty, masculine or like androgynous on the outside
but very much like soft and like more feminine
on the inside.
Cause I think I'm like the total opposite of that.
- Our first date was?
- Gallery hopping in Chelsea on a Thursday.
And then back to her apartment.
- I went over to her house.
Like she cleaned and cooked.
Yeah. We watch movies and stuff.
So it was a very like chill time.
- A sandwich shop in Astoria
- Our first kiss was?
- The night we went to the gallery
- On the first date and watching a movie
and like we looked at each other and then we kissed.
- The first night we hung out.
- They thought my best physical feature was?
- Her stomach tattoo.
- She has a beautiful smile.
I think it's contagious.
- Maybe her eyes, yeah.
- And I thought their best physical feature was?
- My smile.
- My smile, my butt.
- My smile.
- We bonded the most over?
- Well, we both love our families a lot.
And you know, spending time with our little nieces
and nephews and tattoos,
smoking, chilling, art
- We're both Dominican, both grew up like half Americanized
half like Caribbean.
Yeah. Like fact like if she's cooking, like I help
like the fact that I go to her parents' house
I understand them.
Like there was a lot of like silent understanding based
off like cultural backgrounds
- Probably cooking.
- The best memory of our relationship?
- Well, I started to give her a tattoo
on her finger that was supposed to say mom, but I stopped.
I don't know why we got tired
or something was supposed to pick it up later.
Never did.
And it says ow or ohm
which way you flip it?
- I don't know.
We used to go to the park a lot late at night.
We used to walk around and we smoked and stuff.
And then we used to be
with Gulliver and Gulliver is a very dynamic little doggy.
And he would like go
down the slides and you know, want to run around.
And especially we used to do it when nobody was around.
I used to love that.
- Pool days in New Jersey, It was always fun.
- The best picture of is?
- Smoking, you know, listening to music
- It was so warm. And we were like,
we have to do something outside.
So he went to a little red light house with Gulliver.
That was a good time.
We had a such a good day that day.
- Just having family party.
I'm pretty sure if she told me to make a serious face
I am making a serious face.
- We loved to?
- Create, draw paint, stuff like that.
- We got lit a lot to be honest.
- Cooking, hiking
and going to the park with the dogs.
- I introduced them to?
- Good Dominican food.
- Different foods.
She was always trying something in the kitchen.
So I was always down to try it.
- Becca was in Hennessy.
- Everybody knows how to roll a better blunt because of me.
Everybody.
They introduced me to?
- How to post on Instagram
and not look corny with the filters and everything
- Painting.
- Hiking, and how to be on time.
- Adriana literally taught me how to be an adult.
They knew my favorite food was?
- I can't tell you
what her favorite was.
If it was food, she was probably going to eat it.
- Anything with lime, salt and pepper.
- Crab legs.
- I love lemon and lime.
I am like obsessed. I like eat everything.
I like I'll eat mashed potatoes with fucking lime on it.
Our song was?
- That's corny.
We didn't have a song.
- No, song.
We don't do that over here.
- We did not have a song.
- I don't do like little like baby names
or like, oh, this is our song.
I'm not into that.
We went to?
- We just went to central park together really.
- We used to go to this bar that had lots
of games that we used to get really competitive.
- Disney.
- Our sex life was?
- Healthy.
I got a girlfriend.
Can't say anything crazy.
- It was bump.
We had great chemistry.
- Good times.
- In the morning I would always?
- be sleeping.
When she woke up in the afternoon
You mean? Smoke
- every morning.
- Like get up and dance, randomly.
- cook breakfast.
- My family thought they were?
- I never met her parents.
- I think they love me.
I'm a nice guy.
- I think they liked me.
- Their parents thought I was?
- She never met my parents.
- My mom didn't like her tattoos.
- They liked her for sure.
The best thing they did for me was?
- Probably teach her how to paint and draw better.
- I was just like, I think I'm like the next painter
but I was like really bad.
- I don't know.
I used to pick her up from work, like really late.
She used to get off of work, like around five and six.
And I would like make sure I had like breakfast and
like water and things of that sort.
Make sure she was okay.
- Just consistently being supportive
- In a relationship I'm really good at?
- She's a really good listener.
- She was really good at making me goal oriented.
- She can be very affectionate
knows how to bring out the best in people.
- I'm really good at giving attitude.
I am.
I could be better at?
- Getting ready on time.
- I feel like she could be less a short temper
- Not running when things get tough.
- Did we say I love you?
- No.
- Yes.
- Yeah. For sure.
Because in Spanish we have a thing called [inaudible].
- Would say like sometimes like [Inaudible]
- In English there's no real translation behind that
- But that's more like a, like a Spanish way of like
not really saying I love you.
It's just more like to say like you care for them.
My relationship style is best described as?
- Easygoing.
Having a good time.
Not a long time.
- Very caring, very nurturing.
- Very Gabriella focused like in an open relationship.
When you have a primary, she's her own primary.
- My favorite movie is?
- I don't know.
- Spice Girls.
I think
- She doesn't have one.
- The Spice Girls movie.
My favorite.
Cause I used to have such a crush on sporty and posh.
And then I became her.
Both of them.
My favorite flower is?
- Weed.
- Lilies.
- An orchid.
- I'd say like a lilac.
If I were a candy bar I'd be?
- Snickers. You know like hungry.
Why? Wait that fills you
up.
[ both] Sour patch kids
- First I'm sour.
Then I'm sweet.
My most cherished item is?
- She's not really materialistic like that.
So I can't think of anything.
[both] Gulliver.
- My dog he's my baby.
My mantra is?
- let's get some Henny.
- I don't care what people think.
- Love yourself.
- Love yourself first before anything else.
something I always say is?
- I don't know
- 6ix 9ine was just being popular back then.
And she would always sing his song.
Like it was annoying to me.
- Dead ass.
- I see like dead ass, like all the time.
It's so annoying.
My favorite hobby is?
[ all] Dancing.
- My biggest pet peeve is?
- Immature people.
- People are not clean.
- When the blunt isn't rolled.
When she gets home.
- Stinky breath
the most embarrassing thing I ever
did in front of my ex was?
- Ripping her pants in CVS.
She was just dancing in CVS and the music didn't go at all
with the dance.
she was going too hard as always.
And she busts her pants.
- Besides fall on her face
Like a bunch of
times that's normal.
- Could be messy when drunk.
- She had to deal with me being drunk.
Like often, like I'd come home from work and be like
so sloppy, get me salsa
They're like, I'm hungry.
And she always had to like order food that they
got like seven, eight
in the morning.
Who is more likely to win in an argument?
- Her because I'm always a bigger person.
She gets all fiery.
- Gabby, cause I'll give up.
- Definitely Gabriella.
Typical. Leo always has to have it her way.
Definitely me. Absolutely
A hundred percent.
My sign is?
[ all] she's a Leo.
- Definitely makes sense.
- The need to look as gorgeous as she does at all times.
That's a leo thing and they're sensitive
but they don't like to show it.
- When she walks into the room
It's the spotlight's on her for sure.
She wants it that way.
Always.
- We dated for?
- five months
- Four to five months.
- two years.
- We broke up because?
- I think we're just at different points in our lives.
- It's like she was at college.
and I was like super like a working girl.
So I was always just like, call me when you're 25.
- I'm 25.
I'm not calling.
- We were okay in a non-monogamous relationship.
And she started seeing someone else.
And like the, like the transition was kind of awkward.
- I personally wanted to be more exclusive with one of them.
- We wanted different things.
- For me, It was better to be friends
than to like ruin that relationship completely.
My worst habit was?
- She didn't like when she didn't get her way
- She took too long to get ready.
She was always late
- Notoriously late.
- I take a long time to get ready.
Hello. I gotta look like this.
I always used to tell them?
- I got a fat ass.
- That I don't have to let people mis-gender me.
- Be yourself.
- They hated my?
- Her room color.
It was this purple, burgundy, puke, not cute
- At the time.
She wasn't as like open.
- I didn't hate anything.
- And I hated their?
- Rushing her when she's getting ready type stuff.
- She hated that
My mother would come and clean my apartment.
- All the time.
Like even like this sex toys drawer,
- My mom is very intrusive.
- She better not hate anything.
- The worst thing they did to me was?
- We didn't do anything bad.
Oh, that tattoo
- I guess like lie about little shit little, little things
about my past that I just didn't want to reveal at the time.
- I think I called a lot.
- And the worst thing I did to them was?
- Letting me start that tattoo.
- She didn't communicate clearly
like exactly like why we were breaking
up. Like I understood it like on my own, but it wasn't
communicated as well as I would like to.
- Stop communicating.
Didn't pick up the phone.
- Were are we in love?
[ both] No.
- Intense but not in love.
- Yeah. I think at one point.
- Definitely in love with Adriana.
Like we moved in together and everything.
I got over the breakup after?
- 19 minutes
- She started dating somebody right after me.
So I can't you like what how long it took her.
I'm just going to guess a couple of months.
- Her? like a day.
I bet
- With breakups like a normally see them coming.
So it doesn't take as long
as maybe other people,
they got over the breakup after?
- 20 minutes.
- two months, I did shrooms.
And that helped me over that breakup.
- Maybe a month or two.
- How did things end?
- Good. She won't be tied down.
We're at different points in our life.
I said, yeah, that's true.
Yeah. I was kind of expecting it.
- She ended up dating somebody else and they
things got more serious
with the other person and we ended up breaking up.
It's not cute.
- Well, we live together.
So it got a little messy.
- The last time we hung out was?
- it's been about a year
and a half or two years since we hung out
- Two or Three weeks ago.
- Last week, maybe.
- Would we date again?
- I have a girlfriend right now
and things are looking pretty serious.
So I don't see anybody else getting in the picture.
- No I wouldn't date her again.
She could, they all these other people swear.
- No, we're really good friends though.
like my bro.
- The best thing to come out of the relationship?
- Probably our friendship now.
- Our friendship for sure.
- Our friendship.
- They would say they miss my?
- Just laughing, having a good time, anywhere
- [ both] Her cooking.
- Even when she's mad, she cooks.
That's great.
I love that.
- I think they would tell my future partners?
- Give her a time constraint
on how long she could do her makeup for
because she'll be there for like two plus hours.
- Don't lie to her and it's okay that she's like moody.
You know, she means, well.
- be very patient.
Just be patient.
- What am I looking for?
- When we were together.
I think she was just someone
that couldn't really be tied down.
I don't know if she's still looking
for somebody that's down with that or she's looking
for something more long-term I don't really know.
I'm not sure.
- There's a lot of nontraditional things about her
the person that dates around.
So understand that nontraditional would doesn't bad.
- Someone is very patient, someone that is loving
and compassionate and is a good listener.
- I'm not necessarily
Looking for someone right now, but in the future
I am definitely looking for someone that knows themselves.
And that is also open and accepting.