Here's How Joe, Jill Biden Met And Fell In Love: First Couple's Romance Revisited

President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, have been married for nearly 44 years, and their relationship is still going strong. But how did they meet and fall in love?

Biden lost his first wife and college sweetheart, Neilia, and 1-year-old daughter Naomi in a car accident in 1972. He was left to raise their two sons, Beau and Hunter, alone. However, three years later, the then-33-year-old senator met Jill Tracy Jacobs, a 24-year-old senior at the University of Delaware, The Oprah Magazine reported.

She revealed in a 2016 interview with Vogue how Biden left an impression on her. Jill initially thought that things wouldn't work out between them, but after their first date, she realized that she found a "gentleman."

"I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts, he came to the door and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, 'God, this is never going to work, not in a million years,'" she told the magazine. "He was nine years older than I am!"

She continued, "But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off. When we came home... he shook my hand good night... I went upstairs and called my mother at 1:00 a.m. and said, 'Mom, I finally met a gentleman.'"

Jill also previously recalled their first conversation. "'How did you get this number?' Those were the first words I spoke to Joe when he called me out of the blue on a Saturday in 1975," she wrote in August last year, alongside a throwback photo of her and her husband.

Jill was actually preparing for a date with someone else when Biden called her and asked her out on a date, Harper's Bazaar reported. Biden got her number from his brother, who encouraged him to reach out to her.

"You said, 'Do you think you could break your date?'" Jill recalled in a video for the Democratic National Convention. "I called and told the guy I had a friend in from out of town, and went out with Joe."

However, it took five proposals from Biden before she agreed to marry him.

"I said, 'Not yet. Not yet. Not yet,'" Jill told Vogue of his proposals. "Because by that time, of course, I had fallen in love with the boys, and I really felt that this marriage had to work. Because they had lost their mom, and I couldn't have them lose another mother. So I had to be 100% sure."

In June 1977, they finally got married in New York City at the United Nations chapel. They took sons Beau and Hunter on their honeymoon. Biden and Jill welcomed daughter Ashley four years later.

In Biden's 2007 memoir "Promises to Keep," he opened up about how Jill made a difference in his life.

"She gave me back my life," he wrote. "She made me start to think my family might be whole again."

Decades after their wedding, the president, 78, and the first lady, 69, remain a sweet and affectionate couple—which they didn't hide when they moved into the White House in January.