One day at Black Rock Retreat in the summer of 2018, the staff was doing training and Roquie was bored in the meeting. Amanda, having just graduated from high school, came into the meeting late. She immediately caught his eye, but they remained just friends for their first summer on staff together. In the summer of 2019, they began talking more and their friendship grew and grew. They began dating in October of 2019. Doing long distance was tough on them, but trips between Syracuse and Lancaster made it bearable. After a whole school year (and lockdown) of long-distance, they headed back to Black Rock for one final summer. In October of 2020 Roquie proposed to Amanda and the rest is history!