Meet Timothy & Adrien

Location: Toronto, ON

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We are Timothy (30) and Adrien (31). We met in Toulouse (France), during the chaotic period of the COVID pandemic, three years ago. Our relationship got serious very quickly, as the city went into lockdown two weeks after we first met, and we decided to move in together because we already couldn”t bear living apart. As we say in French: “ça passe ou ça casse” “hit or miss”! We were both in a very stressful period of our academic career – the final year of our respective doctoral theses. Nonetheless, it very quickly became clear that we had made the right decision – and we have since then been living together and supporting each other in the most satisfying harmony. We complete each other so well, our couple striving on a strong and balanced base, that we chose to be engaged after two years and promised to continue our live side-by-side as a loving team. Since the very first year of our life together, we have shared our desire to extend our family and welcome a child in our team. We have lived together in three different countries (France, Belgium, Canada) and have gone through a lot of both positive and negative adventures, always having each other”s back and solving any hurdles as a team. We are both active and full of energy, love nature (outdoors and indoors – our living room is always full of plants!), hikes, cooking, acquiring new skills and learning, discovering the world and its many beauties and cultures – both through travels and through sharing moments and stories with people from all over the world. We spend a lot of time with our supportive and loving friends and family, cooking various dishes or playing boardgames, but also love to have some alone time as a team. We wish to be young fathers, as we want to be able to share the most of our exciting life adventure with our future children. We also wish for our children to have cousins that are not too far apart in terms of their age, as family matters a lot to us. A bit more about us: Tim was born and raised in the German-speaking part of Belgium (Eupen) in a French and German-speaking bilingual family with five children, of which one adopted and one fostered. He has always been a very caring and empathetic person who tries to spread joy and laughter wherever he can and is always ready to help or lend a helping ear. Tim first studied to become a primary school teacher but was too frustrated not to be able to provide individual help to pupils who showed more difficulties. He therefore switched to speech and language pathology, a field that suited him better as it allowed him to tend to the individual needs of a wide variety of patients, spanning from children with developmental speech or reading disorders to adults and elderly people with acquired communication impairments. He finished his Master”s in Belgium with a specialization in voice therapy, then moved to France to complete a PhD. This is where he met Adrien, then PhD student in chemistry – and boy, the chemistry was instantly undeniable! Tim”s social skills allow him to be a caring and mindful clinician, and have also always helped him to be surrounded by close friends. His two biological brothers recently became fathers, and his parents are embracing their grandparent roles with huge pleasure and commitment. Tim is very grateful for the education he and his siblings have received, which allowed him to become an accomplished, sensitive, happy and balanced individual, aware of his strengths and weaknesses, compassionate and ethical, showing care and consideration for others while also maintaining integrity and honesty in his actions and decisions. He loves reading books, doing puzzles, playing badminton, swimming, listening to music and amateur singing; he also loves pets – he had a hamster, a goldfish, a bunny, a mouse, a dog and a cat. Adrien was born in France with his twin brother and grew up in a family with four children. They moved a lot in his childhood due to his father`s occupation, but his siblings – especially, of course, his twin brother – provided him with the stability needed to enjoy a happy childhood. Like Tim, Adrien is still close to his siblings, and family values matter a lot to him. Although he is less talkative when you first meet him, he very quickly opens up and shows the huge heart he sometimes hides behind a tougher façade. Tim likes to refer to him as a big bear – representing both the strength and the tenderness and sensitivity that characterize him. Adrien studied physics and chemistry in France, then, after meeting Tim during his PhD and being won over by Tim’s big heart and Belgian beers, he followed him to Belgium where he met Tim”s family. Adrien was immediately welcomed with open arms and has since then been considered part of the family. His hobbies include Thai boxing, video games, manga and comics. Like Tim, he grew up with pets – dogs, cats and horses. We are now ready and very much eager to embark together on this adventure of a lifetime! The reason for us to choose surrogacy for our first child is the wish to experience fatherhood from the very first days of our child”s life, being able to provide for and take care of them from the very beginning, and accompanying them throughout all the stages of their development; also, Tim, as a clinician working with patients of all ages including young children, is well aware of the importance of the first years of a child”s life, and we therefore really wish to start our family with a newborn of our own. We would love to have two to three children, as we both have experienced the dynamics and joys of having siblings. We are very much looking forward to hearing our child”s first babblings, seeing their first steps, watching them explore the wonders of the world, reassuring and comforting them in case of little hurts or frights, going on a first hike and teaching them to discover and respect nature, jumping in puddles, cooking and baking with them, the kitchen covered in flour and dough. We envision ourselves as supportive parents, who will motivate our child to try things out to find out their passions. We will provide a stable and safe environment for them to thrive, encourage them to be curious, allowing them to make errors in a safe way and learn from them. We will instill the passion for learning and give them the tools and teach them how to learn and help them build the necessary problem-solving skills to be able to face the many challenges of life independently – although we will also always be at their side to support and help them out. We will help them embrace their skills and accept their flaws, but also accepting and seeing the beauty in the differences between us all. We will show them how to find happiness in the little things, and how to acknowledge everything and everyone we are lucky to have in our lives. Although we are both serious and down-to-earth individuals most of the time, we also know how to let go and have fun, letting out the inner child that lives within us. We hope our children will adopt this mindset too, in order for them to accomplish great things while being joyful and happy and having a blast whenever they can.

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