For Matthew Lawrence, his romance with Chilli was simply meant to be.
 
But aft the two began dating past fall, the Boy Meets World alum, who precocious shared his hopes to commencement a household 1 day, noted the existent timing connected their aboriginal plans.
 
"It's specified an absorbing story," helium told E! News' Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester. Referring to his older member Joey Lawrence, helium added, "Joe and I were commiserating astir this program that we had to person children together…when we were increasing up. And I missed the archetypal spell astir and present he's starting a caller family and I was thinking, ‘Man, it'd beryllium large if we could bash it again, erstwhile I didn't person the accidental to rise a household together.'"
 
"So that's what I meant by that," Matthew said of his caller comments connected starting a family. "I didn't mean to enactment immoderate unit connected idiosyncratic I was dating oregon anything."
 
But arsenic Matthew noted, helium has nary uncertainty that Chilli—who shares son Tron, 25, with ex Dallas Austin—would beryllium "incredible" if those plans were to hap eventually.

Matthew, 43, and Chilli, 52, brought successful this twelvemonth with a bang erstwhile they made their narration Instagram official connected New Year's Eve, with some sharing a video of themselves dancing to A-ha's "Take connected Me" successful matching PJs, writing, "#NewYearsShenanigans #OnesieGang #WeCute."

The "Meant to Be" singer's rep besides told TMZ that Matthew—who finalized his divorce from Cheryl Burke successful September 2022—and Chilli started dating conscionable earlier Thanksgiving, with the mates spending that holiday, arsenic good arsenic Christmas, unneurotic successful Atlanta, wherever helium met her family. 

Though it's worthy noting that the 2 developed a relationship beforehand and were seen having amusive successful the prima unneurotic past August.

And Chilli has besides made it wide that Matthew is her babe (baby, baby), with 1 her astir caller societal media posts giving him and his brothers, Joey and Andrew, a shoutout for the motorboat of their Brotherly Love podcast.

"Come connected vocals!!! Can't hold for this podcast!" she wrote alongside a Feb. 14 video of the trio singing. Referring to the nary different than Matthew, she added, "Happy Valentine's Day...and yea the 1 connected the close [heart emojis.]"