Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff like to watch rom-coms. Their love story sounds like one

Their love story contains all the textbook rom-com characters: A high-powered career woman navigating politics and personal life. A handsome LA entertainment lawyer sharing two kids with his ex-wife. And a meddling best friend who just wanted to see the godmother of her children happy.

But it’s also a political drama. When then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris married Doug Emhoff ten years ago, after a whirlwind year-long romance, it marked a private triumph for a pioneering public figure. And it also set the stage for history: America has spent the past few years watching the country’s first Black, Asian and female vice president, with a white man in the supporting role.

As Harris takes over for Joe Biden in the battle against Donald Trump for the presidency, a move that could see the glass ceiling shattered with the first ever woman president, Emhoff gets closer and closer to a historic role himself: the first First Gentleman of the United States of America.

And it all started with a blind date set up by Harris’ bestie.

It was 2013, and Harris was serving as California’s attorney general; having already established a trailblazing name for herself after working for years as San Francisco’s very first district attorney of color.

“As a single, professional woman in my forties, and very much in the public eye, dating wasn’t easy,” Harris writes in her 2019 memoir The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. “I knew that if I brought a man with me to an event, people would immediately start to speculate about our relationship.

“I also knew that single women in politics are viewed differently than single men. We don’t get the same latitude when it comes to our social lives. I had no interest in that kind of scrutiny