While Bayleigh was visiting New York on New Year's Eve, she matched with Mike on Tinder. They met up the next day, with the support of Bayleigh's friend, Corinne, at a pub by Union Square. Despite the protests of his friends, two weeks later, Mike decided to fly down to North Carolina to see Bayleigh again. As fate would have it, a blizzard hit Asheville for five days straight, leaving them stranded in the mountains together. They saw each other once a month until August 2016 when Bayleigh moved to NYC. On the day Bayleigh finished grad school in August 2017, they moved in together in Bed-Stuy. In May 2018, they got their silly dog, Poppy, whom they love very much. He proposed on January 1st, 2019 on their three year anniversary.