She Met Her Boyfriend 12 Years After Having His Child, and Their Daughter Couldn’t Be Happier

In 2005, Jessica Share made a decision to have a child with her life partner using the help of a donor. But things didn’t work out with her wife, and eventually, the two broke up. Jessica raised her daughter Alice mostly on her own for the next few years until something very unexpected happened.

Years later, she met a guy named Aaron Long and they hit it off perfectly. But neither of them had any idea that they had met once before—just not the way most people do. And neither of them had any idea that their love connection was seemingly set by fate.

She Wanted to Start a Family

Jessica Share’s love story with Aaron Long began in 2005, except, he wasn’t in the picture. At the time, she was happily in love and married to an unnamed woman. Both Share and her partner wanted to have kids, so, they started looking at potential candidates that could become sperm donors.

But it wasn’t easy.

They Were Hesitant to Use a Known Donor

“Ever since we’d met we had dreamed about having kids together. We decided on four and together we chose their names. The next step was more difficult. My girlfriend suggested her brother-in-law could help.

He was receptive, but I took a gay and lesbian legal rights course offered by the college of law at my university, and quickly gave up on the idea of a known donor,” Share told the BBC. And there was a reason for her hesitancy.

Courts Always Sided With Known Donors

Long and her partner worried that a known sperm donor might try to take their children away if he changed his mind someday. And neither of them would have any legal way to stop him. “Courts had been known to give them custody rights, calling their gift of sperm an act of parenting.

When birth moms died, children were removed from their homes to be placed with men they barely knew. Luckily, we discovered a sperm bank that shipped right to our home,” she explained.

The Donor Had to Be in Perfect Health

The couple searched far and wide for a candidate that had all the qualities they were looking for, like good health and decent weight. The most important thing was their family history.

Fortunately, they found a candidate who had no medical history of cancer, diabetes or any other health ailments in the family. And that’s not all.