Jonathan and Christie met at a Chipotle while both attending IHOPKC's University. Though they were both in a friendship group lead by Dane Mallernee, during the first year of school, there was no intrigue by either until they both realized the other had a similar dry, sarcastic sense of humor. However, it was not until after Jonathan came back from his six month externship that Christie and Jonathan started to become friends. In the Spring semester of 2018, Christie invited Jonathan to try a traditional Honduran dish, "Baleadas". That first night was the start of a blossoming relationship, as Jonathan realized she was so beautiful and fun. On the same night, Jonathan was inducted into Christie's friend group by taking part in the sacred ritual of putting make up on each other's faces. He is an amazing make-up artist. After they began to be interested in each other, Christie, Jonathan, and friends would do breakfast nights together. Jonathan had knee surgery in the summer of 2018, but that did not stop the two from becoming closer. The two's friendship and interest grew over the summer of 2018, as they would hangout, particularly when they went on a "price chopper cereal run" for IHOPKC's summer camp. Though they were interested in each other in the summer of 2018, Christie felt from the Lord that she was supposed to go to YWAM in Kona, Hawaii. She left to go back home to Miami, Florida in late July of 2018 to get ready for YWAM. The two stayed in touch infrequently, but it was enough that when Jonathan saw her in late April of 2019 in the church gym, what was once interest became an head-over heels crush. Even though she did not think he would be interested in her and continually told him to date her friends, Jonathan knew that the only woman he wanted to be with was her. Three weeks after Christie returned to Kansas City in 2019, Jonathan asked her to be his girlfriend, and the rest is history.