Ben Friberg knew he had met someone special at work when they bonded over their knowledge of Greek mythology.

He had just started working as a photographer at a television news station in Austin, Texas in 2007 and he and his colleague, a reporter, were waiting to interview someone for a story.

“We were still in the ‘getting to know you’ phase,” says Friberg. They started discussing the movie Troy, and she pointed out the discrepancies between the movie and the Iliad, the Greek story it loosely chronicles.

“I can remember thinking, ‘this is going to be a different type of relationship,’” says Friberg.