Cynthia and Christine met at a marketing campaign occasion for the Alliance for High quality Schooling. Cynthia — who had two youngsters within the New York Metropolis public college system — and Christine, who helped discovered the nonprofit group, have been each on the occasion combating to lower class sizes. In an interview with Perspective, Cynthia — who had beforehand dated solely males — defined, “Falling in love with my spouse was one of many nice delights and surprises of my life, nevertheless it didn’t seem to be I turned a complete new individual, or like some door had been unlocked. It was like, ‘I’ve fallen in love with totally different folks in my life, and so they’ve all been males earlier than. Now it is a girl, and he or she is wonderful.’” They began courting in 2004 and have been married since 2012.