I used to joke that vintage modern furniture brought us together, but it was really my move to Chicago. Not knowing the neighborhoods at all, interior design was the basis of my choice of Airbnb as a temporary home. Our stays randomly overlapped in that Airbnb, and one night after a spirited debate about the podcast “Serial,” I felt I’d made my first friend in a new city. About a year later we started dating, and fell in love almost immediately. We spent a month exploring Bali together on a scooter, just to make sure.