In 2005, Joshua and Chaliza attended the same middle school, Two Rivers magnet school. They may or may not have crossed paths in the hall but had never formally met until 2007. From 2007 to 2010 Joshua and Chaliza were both apart of FIRST Robotics team 181. Building robots and competing brought them together as friends. In 2010, Joshua graduated and joined the Army National Guard. Years had passed by and Joshua and Chaliza friendship had drifted apart. On March 24, 2018 Chaliza clicked 'like' on a post of Josh working out on Instagram. She then commented on Joshua's post inviting him to check out her martial arts class. Shortly after, he attended a session and they reconnected after years of seeing each other from the high school robotic team days. After numerous days helping Josh with extra practice on his karate forms in the parking lot after class.... Chaliza had fell in love! *His side of the story, he had fell in love with me watching me kick a** in class one day!* On June 1, 2018 Joshua had asked Chaliza to be his girlfriend and without a doubt she said yes! On Febuary 11, 2019 Chaliza and Joshua attended martial arts class. Shihan James Gadson had instruted us to gear up to begin sparring. Chaliza and Marlie sparred first. After a couple of kicks and punches Chaliza had got striked in the face, accidentally of course. Chaliza had stepped out of the ring and Joshua was instructed to spar with Andre. During Joshua's sparring he took a kick to the shin, unintentionally. Due to the sudden pain Joshua took a knee. Shihan asked me to go check on him. As I approached Joshua, he took out the ring that was tucked in his gee top and asked Chaliza to marry him and without a doubt, again, she said yes!