The Grindr C.E.O. and His Husband Have a Rule: Always Make Time for Family Dinners

On a recent afternoon, George Arison and Dr. Robert Luo enjoyed a moment of downtime in their modern home in Portola Valley, Calif., a bucolic town west of Palo Alto. The couple, who married in March 2019, have two children, and since their wedding, have moved twice while Mr. Arison took two tech companies public.

They are seated at the dining table, each snuggling a 5-year-old child on his lap. Between bouts of cuddling with Mr. Arison, 47, and Dr. Luo, 46, the children head to the playroom to color and play with Legos. Joining them there is their nanny and Mr. Arison’s father, who after immigrating from his native Georgia in February 2021, is now an integral member of the family.

Mr. Arison and Dr. Luo met at a San Francisco pizzeria in 2015 and quickly bonded over a shared desire to become parents. When they wed four years later at San Francisco City Hall, they held up grainy sonograms of their unborn children as they exchanged tearful vows.

After their wedding, the couple began preparing in earnest for their “twiblings,” siblings conceived with two eggs from the same donor, pairing each man’s sperm with one egg, and carried by two separate surrogates. The process was chiefly overseen by Dr. Luo, who holds a medical degree and a master’s degree in public health.

In early September 2019, they answered a middle-of-the-night call from one of their surrogates, saying that labor had started. With Dr. Luo at the wheel, the couple set off at top speed for a four-hour drive to Redding, Calif., but their mad dash was interrupted by flashing lights. The police officer who pulled them over accepted their rushed explanation, and they were quickly back on the road, without a ticket. “I think he saw the panic in our faces,” Dr. Luo said.