They first met in college at Saint Leo University in Tampa Florida. A school surprisingly full of people from New York, New Jersey and New England trying to escape the cold. Tara couldn't help but fall for the one Florida boy at a post-spring break party. She first saw JJ and made it her mission to speak to him that night and she did! They spent the rest of the night talking, the last few months of the school year playing hard to get and the summer months talking non-stop. Fast forward to the first week of the following year when a very direct and sassy Tara told JJ to make it official already. He willingly agreed and they ended up dating through college, eventually graduating together and carried on a successful long distance relationship from 1,300 miles away. In 2015, JJ finally moved to New York to be with Tara and in 2016 they both ended up happily ever after in Hoboken NJ together!