Don't ask us how but we both ended up working for very brief periods at adjacent kiosks in Chesterfield Towncenter. Aletheia was selling home improvement renovations and Tyler was pushing the now out of business cell provider NTelos. "That job was total crap!" Aletheia recalls, "But I remember hoping I would see him when I showed up for work. There was just something about him that was different." A few months later our first date was a wild evening ride from Richmond to the Virginia Beach ocean front. "I had planned to take her to a specific restaurant" admits Tyler. However, after realizing it was closed and driving over the Chesapeake Toll bridge multiple times trying to find it, he settled on burritos and a visit to main boardwalk. "It was October and already cold but I didn't mind, I thought the whole thing was wildly romantic." says Aletheia. We officially started dating January 2nd 2015. "He asked me to be his girlfriend on New Year's Day but I needed a day to think about it" laughs Aletheia. Fast-forward one rescue cat (Selene), one rescue dog (Goji), a brilliant 9 year old (Tyler's daughter/Aletheia's stepdaughter Finley) and 6 years later; we've realized that what we have together is more beautiful than anything we could have dreamed apart. We are thrilled to finally be saying "YES!" to each other in 2021.