Introducing the future Ojes!!

From Ike's POV - We met in his church in October 2021, a friend of mine in the same church invited me to a youth's hangout and as soon as I saw him, I just knew something was going to happen. Obviously, as the demure, gentle person that I am, I didn't say or do too much but I did quietly go over to my friend to ask, "Who is that guy?". We had a nice conversation but he did say he won't remember by name so he'll just call me glasses??? How rudeee but anyway, everyone there exchanged instagrams.... including Sam and I. Fast forward to December 2021, one of his friends who lived directly opposite me had a get together for the anniversary of her business and invited me. That's when we really started getting to know each other . We spoke about finances and investment and I told him I just started my investment journey. He then asked for my number so I could "teach him more" little did I know that that was his tactic to get my number. In April 2022, my friends had a paint n sip event. I already had my ticket but I couldn't attend. Sam and I were texting here and there so I asked him if he was going and he told me he couldn't get a ticket cos got sold out. I told him I could give him my ticket and he accepted and then said "Can I take you out to thank you for the ticket". I was like oh no no need, no problem at all, you don't need to do that. Then he was like oh I insist, "Even if it's just for coffee" In my head, I was like okay we're just going for friendship hangout/catchup looooool. Now planning this "friendship hangout" was a whole adventure - ahhhhh, so many cancellations from my end. I actually rate Sam for sticking it out with me cos my reasons were baseless. We eventually went on our first date on the 29th of May 2022 and it was a very wholesome first date and the beginning of a beautiful relationship that is leading to marriage, how crazy!! but WHOLESOME!

From Sam's POV - So I met Ike at a church programme, shout out to Michaela (Ike’s friend) who invited her to my church. She was a lovely woman, but at the time I needed to go and fix up before I could pursue. I saw her again at my friend's place, shoutout to Hillary. She mentioned she invested, and I hit her with the “teach me.” That’s how I got her number. I already knew how to invest and had been doing it longer than her, but you know how it goes. She later gave me a ticket to an event hosted by Ojibloom (shoutout Eni and Michaela). She couldn’t make it, and the tickets were sold out. Afterwards, I insisted on repaying her for the ticket, and that turned into our first date. Apparently, she cancelled on me three times before we actually had it, but I don’t remember, I focus on the positive. She chose the café since I was new to the city, but when we got there, they were closing. Nice start. Anyway sha, it got sorted. We went on a few more dates, and on one of them she said she wasn’t sure if it was even a date. I explained what was going on, and the rest is history.