We first got together in 2011, after meeting in New York on Grindr. We talked for a couple of days and then we went on a date. We actually discussed having kids on that first date. At that point in our lives we had been through a lot, were at a stage where we knew what we wanted. Luckily, our wants were mutual.
After a while we looked into it, and although adoption would have been something we would have considered, our first thought was surrogacy, and that route was the one that worked out for us. We decided we wanted two children. We’re both working fathers, so it made sense for us to try for twins and do that in one sweep. We wanted to do it above board so we went with a really reputable agency that a friend of ours had used, and we did that in Connecticut.