00:00Even before we started dating, people were like, yeah, he likes you, she likes you, like
00:06what are you doing?
00:07But we were like, I don't know, I think we're friends.
00:14In Chicago, there's a lot of opportunities to do improv, stand-ups, theater, and we're
00:20kind of a jack-of-all-trades in that world.
00:22Comedy is huge.
00:23My girlfriend, she works with kids, so it makes me feel like I'm a part-time dad.
00:28Dating another performer does have its ups and downs.
00:31If we both have an audition, there's probably going to be some anxiety in the house, and
00:34we can kind of be each other's rock when the other person has something more stressful.
00:45Becoming parents wasn't an accident, like we didn't wake up one day like, oh, crap.
00:49We kind of write the script as we go along.
00:52I still remember seeing him, exactly where he stood.
00:56I just thought you were so cute right away, but I wasn't obviously going to stare at you.
01:01I just like turned you to me, and then I just kissed her, and it was, it was crazy.
01:05I'm surprised I didn't slap him.
01:07And then I kissed her again.
01:08Yeah.
01:09And then I guess I must have liked it.
01:11A year later, we were married.
01:13And then a year after that, we had Everest, and now she's almost two.
01:18Being new parents, you never know what it's going to do to you.
01:23I feel like I fully saw another side of you when you became a mom.
01:28Woo!
01:29And a little baby in here.
01:31Another one.
01:31The second one.
01:32Mm-hmm.
01:39Chicago has great people everywhere, but the people we love most live in Lincoln Park.
01:43We got married here.
01:43We got married in this neighborhood.
01:44We got engaged here.
01:45We got engaged in this neighborhood.
01:46When I met him, it was a very serious thing to just be completely honest and real with him.
01:50And then it turned out that was like the first time in my life where I was totally honest
01:53and like raw with someone, and we ended up getting married.
01:57So, you really do have to be really real with the person that you love.
02:00Ride or die.
02:01Ride or die.
02:02Yeah.
02:04He's my favorite person in the whole wide world.
02:06She's my favorite person.
02:07I would follow Alex anywhere.
02:10Hopefully, it would just be another part of Lincoln Park, though.
02:17We've been wanting to get in kitties for a while now.
02:20Getting a kitty is just one more part of us admitting ourselves to each other.
02:24And then eventually, we'll raise little kiddies.
02:27Oh, I like what you're doing there.
02:29Yeah.
02:29I think he fell in love with you.
02:31The personality of Chicago is just like the seasons.
02:35There's summer.
02:36There's fall.
02:36There's winter.
02:37There's spring.
02:37And it's like it's not always going to be hot.
02:40You know, summer day with the sun out.
02:42Like, it's going to be gloomy sometimes.
02:43And seasons sort of humble you and make it real.
02:47Wow.
02:47No matter what happens to this man, no matter what, whether he's old and wrinkly, crippled,
02:52bald, broke, whatever would happen to this person.
02:56Like, I will always be by your side.
02:58We're very real with each other.
03:00And that's one of the strongest aspects of our relationship.
03:03I can't imagine finding, like, a more perfect weirdo, you know, for me.
03:08I don't think that we have, like, a five-year plan or anything.
03:12But, like, we're improvising.
