Ciji and Travis spent ten years as each other’s ride-or-die—co-chairs, creative collaborators, best friends—without realizing they were also soulmates. They met through the Urban League of Greater Atlanta as ambitious young professionals and shared countless late-night meetings, speaking gigs, and even a few dates. But it wasn’t until Ciji threw out a curveball and moved to New Orleans that their second-chance romance truly began.

In this episode of Committed, guest host Christine Pride (author of the brand-new second-chance romance All the Men I’ve Loved Again) sits down with CGCijiand Travis to unpack a love story that grew slowly, steadily, and then all at once. It’s about timing, trust, belly laughs and what happens when you finally and boldly choose each other.

When Joanna and Keeril met as freshmen at Oberlin, the connection was instant—but the romance took its time. After a will-they-won’t-they college friendship turned into a senior-year love story, life pulled them in opposite directions. She moved to London. He stayed in Ohio. What followed were nearly two decades of missed chances, broken hearts, marriages to other people, and long silences punctuated by late-night reunions that never quite stuck.

Until one night, 18 years later, they found themselves in the same bar, and this time, the timing was finally right.

In this episode, we talk about what it really takes to get a second chance at the kind of love that feels like home. Joanna and Keeril open up about depression, ambition, parenthood, estranged years, unexpected reconnections, and why finding your person again might just be the most romantic thing of all.

Welcome to the launch of our new mini-series (Re) Committed where we dive into stories of love lost and found again when people least expect it. This series was inspired by Christine Pride's new novel, All the Men I've Loved Again, which is based on her own second chance romance when she fell in love with the same two men in her twenties and again in her forties. Today we hear Christine's story of how she fell for her college boyfriend and then a handsome young TV producer when she moved to New York City. How she lost touch with both as she built her own career and how she reconnected with the same men twenty years later during the pandemic and found true love with one of them.

Buy Christine's book All the Men I've Loved Again, here.