Alex was best friends with Juliette's parents, Chet and Marci, long before he met her. His friend/roommate, Tyler, had an old family connection with them, and the Silverman's hospitality shone as soon as he moved to Charleston, where they bonded over good food, old movies, and agreeing to disagree on New York's best teams. A stroke of chance involving a resupply of dish soap allowed Alex and Tyler to run into Juliette, home between med school and residency, and her parents at one of Charleston's greatest restaurants. They matched on Hinge two days later, went on their first date the day after, and that was that. Not even Juliette telling Alex she was moving to Virginia in a month or inviting him to India with her family was enough to scare him away.