We respect the grief you may be feeling even as you read our profile, along with other profiles. Thank you for taking a few minutes to get to know our story! As you continue this unique journey, we are wishing you the best in every part of your story.

With love,

Julia and Jeremiah

Jeremiah and his younger sister were both adopted as babies; they are Hispanic folks who were adopted by a White couple.

Jeremiah never met his birth mother, which is a part of his story that still makes him sad. Even though Jeremiah wishes that he knew his birth mother, he had a very positive experience with adoption. His parents talked openly about adoption, and celebrated “Jeremiah Day”, which is the day that his parents took him home. They always talked positively about his birth mother, even though they never knew her. They talked to Jeremiah about his cultural heritage, which was different from their own. Jeremiah knew that he was loved by all the parents in his life.

Julia’s first dream was to become a mother. Even as a child, she imagined that adoption might be a part of her story. After two pregnancy losses, Julia decided not to pursue parenthood through pregnancy. While Julia will always grieve her pregnancy losses, she and Jeremiah are excited for the ways that adoption offers us to influence a future life and enhance their family.

We will offer your child the same degree of openness about adoption, respect for culture, and opportunities to build a relationship with you. We understand that your baby will likely have some sadness and questions about adoption. We will do our best to support your child’s difficult questions and grief. We hope to have an open adoption so that you can also be a part of those conversations. However, we respect what is most comfortable for you.

Adoption is the best choice for our family.

We share this because we believe that the most important thing we can offer a child is a relationship between two people who love each other, root each other on, solve problems well, and laugh together.

A lot, in our case.

We are deeply invested in practicing the things that we invite our couples to consider. We want to model date nights, communicating our feelings respectfully, apologizing well when we make mistakes, an equal partnership where both of our strengths get to shine, and curious questions.

We met in November 2018 through a work connection. While we sipped coffee and ate bagels at a café near Jeremiah’s office, we both felt a fast spark as we bonded over our careers and future aspirations.

It was the most magical coffee date of our lives.

We’ve had many more magical dates since then.

And over the next several years, we established our lives together. We have lived internationally (The Netherlands), traveled all over the world, hiked over 2,000 miles together, started two businesses together, and played hundreds of hours of board games.

Most importantly, we have worked hard to become excellent partners. We strive to treat each other with kindness, patience, mutual respect, and unconditional love.

We promise to say and show “I love you” to each family member as much as we can, in as many ways as we can.

We promise to surround our family with people who will love us, support us, and invest in our wellbeing and growth.

We promise to apologize for the mistakes that we make, and create a family that takes accountability for our actions.

We promise to ask good questions, so that all of us can make the best decisions, learn from our mistakes, and grow into the best of people.

We promise to hold each other in the moments that life is cruel.

Most importantly, we promise to walk, hike, travel, explore, offer hope, and laugh as much we can.