Cardi B and Offset called it quits in 2020, TMZ reported at the time, but they reconciled before the end of the year and welcomed a new child in the fall of 2021. The couple’s often tumultuous relationship has had its fair share of ups and downs prior to Cardi filing divorce papers in September 2020.

They started 2018 secretly married, but then dealt with cheating rumors. In April of that year, Cardi confirmed they were expecting a baby and that they were married. By the end of 2018, Cardi announced they’d fallen out of love and would be breaking up.

But the 2019 Grammys—including his onstage presence during her win—signaled they were back together for the foreseeable future. After she filed the divorce papers, he was by her side for her birthday in Vegas. Then, they reconciled, and Cardi dismissed the divorce case two months after she filed. They have been together since.

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Ahead, we relive the big moments in an exhaustive timeline of their entire coupledom.

Not much is known of the couple’s first meeting, but Cardi has said they first met at an “industry event” and Offset pursued her.

“He was very consistent,” Cardi said in a video on her Twitter account, recapping the night they met. “He really wanted to talk to me.”

At this point, they were still ostensibly only collaborators and/or friends — and they were also still far from household names.

Cardi was still best known as a reality star at this point; her first hit, “Bodak Yellow,” wouldn’t come out for months. Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” was climbing the charts, after having been released in October 2016, so Offset’s star was on the rise.

Cardi B and Offset attended the 2017 Super Bowl together. Cardi posted on her Instagram Story about it, referring to Offset as “my friend… you know what I’m saying?”

People sensed what was really up, though, and rumors started flying that the duo were dating. Offset confirmed to Rolling Stone in January 2018 that this had been the pair’s first real date. He called it a “power move,” but we’d say the real power move is putting a guy on your Instagram the first time he takes you out, while simultaneously referring to him as a friend.

The post has since been deleted, but it was a photo of them at the Super Bowl a few weeks earlier, according to Vibe. Offset commented with the boyfriend-girlfriend emoji, according to Bossip, so clearly they were well and truly hooking up by this point — although it’d be a long time before they admitted it.

Cardi nabbed the cover of Fader magazine, but refused to confirm or define her relationship with Offset. She did talk about his work ethic, though.

“It’s been a blessing, me meeting him and meeting his friends. I see how hard they work. And that motivated me to work even harder,” she told Fader. “And I see how good things are going for them and how popping it is to be number one. And I’m like, I want that.”