We met when we were just two 20-somethings working & living in the Chicago suburbs way back in the Obama administration. Spent a year and a half dating and commuting on the Stevenson Expressway, before we decided to move in together - 6 states away. The Pacific Northwest was our first home together, and we learned how to live with one another, and with no money. We agree that it was the hardest year we've spent together, but it also taught us how to build not just a relationship, but a life together. We moved to our current Hoosier Home of Bloomington, Indiana in 2018. We met a lovely group of friends that October that we have turned into our found family. Adelaide joined the family November of 2018 & Lorna Lou in May of 2024. We have made a silly, fun, weird little life together, and we're so excited finally to bring the Indiana State law into our relationship.