Imagine meeting someone new and your third date ends up lasting a lot longer than you ever expected - 79 days to be exact.
Well, that's what happened to this couple from New York who met in February of 2020, just a few weeks before the Pandemic shut the world down.
Matt Robertson and Khani Le met on Hinge and had a great first date at an Indian restaurant. Then had a fun second date at an axe throwing range.
For their third date, Robertson suggested they live a little and go on an adventure.
The adventure was a five-day trip to Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
“You only live once,” he remembers saying to himself in order to justify the risk, “What’s the worst that could happen?”
Le was all in, but her friends, not so much. They were skeptical and warned her to be careful.
“I said yes, just throwing caution to the wind,” she said, adding, “I was kind of like, ‘Go with the flow and see what happens.'”
The couple boarded a flight on Delta Airlines from JFK on March 17. They spent three days ziplining and enjoying cocktails at an all-inclusive resort. But on the day they were supposed to return to the U.S., their flight was canceled indefinitely as a result of the global coronavirus shut down.
Their third date ended up lasting 79 days and the beginning of a long-term relationship.
The pair’s unusual dating experience is the subject of a new Netflix documentary “Longest Third Date,” out Tuesday.
“It was a crazy, surreal experience,” Robertson told The Post.
“You get real close real quick,” said Le, who had recently gotten out of a relationship and wasn’t looking for anything serious. “There was no hiding whatsoever.”
When the couple finally returned home, Le moved into Robertson’s apartment in Hoboken, NJ one month later.
The couple celebrated their 1-year anniversary in June 2021 by getting a blue French bulldog they named Banks.
The three of them have since moved to the Lower East Side. Robertson and Le have no plans to marry just yet.
“We’ve enjoyed slowing things down a bit,” said Robertson. “It’s been fun to just hang out and do normal dating things that we missed out on in the early stages.”
But the lovebirds don’t regret their rushed romance and recommend others to consider a wild and crazy third date.
“Do it!” said Robertson. “As long as those first two dates are good, do it.”
Source: NY Post