Life is short, check your DMs. At

least this is Warren Weir’s advice to women who may be looking for that special

someone.

“Answer your DM dem when di man

dem talk to unno cause you don’t know who you might meet,” the athlete said in

a recent vlog. “Memba people nuh meet people a road again enuh, especially wid

di COVID-19. Your husband might just be in your DMs.”

Weir’s suggestion accompanies the

story of how he met beau Alexan Stewart, and of course, it started in the DM in

2014. Nothing progressed as Weir discovered she had a boo thang, but he tried

his luck when she became single and ultimately got her number. After weeks of

dry, small talk, the universe intervened.

“I was driving my mom’s car to

school (UTECH)…I’m at the stoplight now and when I look over, him a drive

pass so our eyes make four so I looked at my phone,” Stewart said.

“Why yaa hide me out?” Weir was

on the line, in typical Jamaican style.

He was en route to pick up

another car so they agreed to meet after her class when she had returned her

mother’s whip.

“I ended up meeting you at your

mother’s office…and I don’t know where I found so much faith inna dis girl

weh mi nuh know…I found faith in this girl to drive my car…I picked her up,

then we picked up my other car and drove to my yard.”

His home would serve as their

primary chill spot as they sought privacy while first testing their

compatibility through friendship.

“The Jamaica stigma is if people

see unno out together, unno a f**K, not date…” Weir said.

“We did all our pars or dates at

his house, so if we went for lunch we ordered food and then we carried it to

his house and then we used to play video games,” added Stewart. “Him used to

mek me watch all of his track videos because at that time I wasn’t very

familiar with the track…”

They maintained their privacy

even when they started going to public events, by bringing several friends and

arriving separately. Though Stewart said it was challenging keeping up this

appearance, she made it work.

“I just knew that he had a little

limelight on him at the moment and I just didn’t want to be a part of it if I

was gonna be making an exit soon.”

That moment almost came when the

pair went to a hotel, only to be surprised by management with an upgraded

honeymoon suite because of course, it’s Warren Weir.

“I wasn’t going expecting

nothing,” he said. “When she a bathe mi try come out a di room cause mi never

did a try do nothing like dat, it was just to chill.”

But Stewart was still

uncomfortable, and his food-smacking was the dealbreaker.

“When he started doing it I

texted my friends that we used to go out with like, ‘yow I can’t do this’.”

She ignored him for several weeks

(though her parents were egging them on) but with Weir’s persistence, she

eventually gave him another shot.

And in true happily ever fashion,

the couple welcomed a baby girl last month.