According to friends, Sahel Kazemi was in love with Steve McNair and hoped to marry the former NFL quarterback. "We met him because I don't watch football and didn't know who he was," said Farzin Abdi, Kazemi's nephew. "We went out to dinner and she was so happy and was having fun. Were we happy about the relationship? No." Abdi added that their appeared to be a promise that the couple would live together and eventually marry. "I don't know if he had filed for divorce but I thought it wouldn't happen," Abdi said. Kazemi's family was also under the impression that McNair's family knew about the relationship. "I was under the impression that his family knew about her," Abdi said. "That he took the children alone with him on vacation is a sign that they were separated."