- My house was super chill, 'cause my mom is a therapist.
She's a shrink.
Instead of like getting in trouble in my house,
it was more like,
what could you do to have done that better?
- My family they're all back home in Mexico City still.
My parents are still together.
And like, we're pretty much very tight.
I would describe my family as,
in your business maybe, I don't know if that's the word.
Like there's strict rules and strict things you can
and cannot do, and it's like very structure for sure, yeah.
- We met at a party.
Through a shared friend of ours.
We kind of like exchanged phone numbers
and like, did some pretty basic, flirty texting.
And then we had our first date.
I had a like a very fancy friend,
who was like, my dad's chef works at this restaurant
called Bestia, and that was like my only like,
touchstone for how to impress someone in LA.
So when it was like, where should we have dinner?
I was like, Bestia.
- And I was like, whoa, okay.
- I had like 47 US dollars.
Total.
- [JP] Which he spent.
- At that point, which I spent on like, foie gras.
- [JP] Yeah.
- JP ordered this like really disgusting bone marrow pasta.
- Which was the best thing on the menu.
- And I had to like pretend that I was into the bone marrow,
while we were like sitting at this bar.
- And then we found out we had the same birthday.
- Oh yeah.
- So that was weird.
- Which was really weird.
We went to JP's apartment
because he wanted to show me his rooftop pool.
And then we started dating.
Like pretty much right away.
We do that thing that like a lot of couple do,
where we had two apartments,
but it was just like, throwing away money.
Because we like, spent every night together.
And I feel like we'd done that for like, well over a year.
- Yeah.
So Charlie's lease was up, and we found a awesome
like one bedroom that we really liked, and so,
we moved in.
- So my mom, was teaching
a summer class abroad in Nicaragua.
I like asked JP if he wanted to go.
He was like yeah.
And I like booked him a flight to come with me.
And it was like a really terrible flight
with like a layover in St. Louis,
which I didn't even know was a place
you could have a layover.
In my gut, I knew that he didn't want to come.
Like I was like, he doesn't,
like this is a weird way to meet my mom.
Like, we had been dating for a long time.
So we go through, like TSA at LAX,
and we get like all the way to the gate,
and we're like about to start boarding the plane,
and he just like jumped ship.
And it was like super weird, 'cause he like went
to the counter and was like asking if he could get a refund.
And they were like, no you bought your ticket
and you're through security.
You should just go to Nicaragua
with your beautiful, fun boyfriend.
I was like, left alone in the airport and on my flight
and for like a full week in Nicaragua,
during which time I did not really talk to him.
- Yeah.
- It would be like, hey what's up.
I'd be like, stop, with a period.
- Yeah, I didn't know if we were gonna make it after that.
- We like, definitely fought a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're super in love.
We've been dating for two and a half years.
We like, do everything together.
We're thinking about adopting a dog.
- I also taught Charlie Spanish.
- That's not true.
I do--
- Well I can speak Spanish and I'm just speaking Spanish
to him 'cause I'm too lazy for English.
In our relationship I've learned that
love is awesome.
But it's also like, a lot of work.
- Yeah, I mean, I think you like watch rom-coms
and they never fight about who's gonna fold the towels.
And then, that's part of like, living together.
It's a lot cooler than just having a regular room mate.
You know, we're still super young.
You never know what's next, but I wanna,
hope it lasts forever.
We're super happy and,
- Looks good.
- [Voiceover] Soul Pancake.