Architect Ignacio Morente Gemas had a very different adolescence than his high school classmates. He left home alone at 12, moving from the town of Antequera, in Málaga, to Cornellà de Llobregat. He was a tennis player and dedicated himself to elite sports, so in the afternoons he trained with the Catalan Tennis Federation and in the mornings he studied at high school. There he met Emma, his lifelong partner, with whom he and his wife have been together since they were 14. They are now 34. "She also liked tennis and taught young children. We started talking on Messenger one Christmas when I returned to Málaga for the holidays. Every night we connected and chatted. When Christmas was over, we met on a bench in front of the school and spent the whole afternoon." Since then, the couple hasn't been apart.