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Found my birth parents who actually got married shortly after giving me up for adoption. Best day of my life❤️ We celebrated 40 years of knowing each other this past Valentine's day which is the day I finally was able to talk to them on the phone for the first time ❤️
As a birth mom - I did love my child enough to give them away to have something better than what I could give that child. I loved them enough to tell myself the truth.
@@elenas9857 You did what worked for you - I did what worked for me. Don't judge me. You have no idea how my life unfolded or what issues I was dealing with or have had to deal with enroute.
@@Coach.KallistaI can’t imagine being decades in. My son is 2.5 and it has taken me a hell of a fight to even make it this far. 😅 I wish people would stop saying things like “she didn’t want me” because the pain of placing a child is absolutely unlike anything else most will ever experience. It’s no small feat to give birth and watch your newborn leave with someone else.
I'm confused. I don't see what "God" did here. Allowed Teresa to grow up feeling "not good enough", made it difficult for mother and daughter to find each other, but cared enough for her to have been named the same by both parents? 🤷♀️
@@VioletJoy THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! God AIN'T SHIT ANF AIN'T REAL! If he were he would be quite the asshole! I HATE IT when people keep on saying good is good when he does not even exist 😠
My mother did this and found her birth mother after 50+ years!!! She was raised an only child and now has three siblings and a lovely mother. So amazing!!!
I'm so glad you got to meet your biological mother. I was also adopted and met my birth mom in 2000 and also my birth father plus my young brother. I had a daughter in 04 and gave her up but the parents who adopted her couldn't have kids. I was able to meet my girl and her dad but her mom passed away in 2016. I met my girl in 2017.
I was adopted Once I met my birth Mother I understood. " WHY she gave me up.' She had a very hard life. As, did the kids she already had. I know she married a nasty man.even my Siblings told me that..She finally left hm.......Then the two kids became. What was known as ' Latch door key kids.' One son stayed with Father, Who never looked after him..His care was left to Father's sister.....Who apparently Never had Kids & was not ready for such responsibility. My point is....I was so very Lucky to have be adopted by a lovely couple.
Randy Boone I find it funny when parents who give up their kids want to later in life be a parent to them, it’s honestly cruel to the adoptive parents, i understand why some adoptive kids want to find their real parents because we are all immature in life at one point or another
I found my parents when I was 17. And my 5 siblings, now I have 6 and 3 step brothers plus my adoptive brother! I searched for my family my whole life, since I knew what adoption meant. I would skip lunch every day in school and go to the computer lab or the library and just search and search, with nothing to go off of. Finally I got I social worker at 17 who contacted the social worker who did my adoption and she agreed to give me my records if my parents agreed, since I was still a minor. They did, they wanted to meet me, and we’ve been part of each other’s lives since. I wish I could have found them sooner, or better yet had never been adopted, but at least I have them now.
I got a story for yall I was adopted my whole life thought my birth mom sold me. I found my birth family and found out my brother and I had been kidnapped
im an Aussie and in 1971 i was forced by my parents to give my baby girl up i found her when she was 20 but my story does not have a happy ending but i hope that this ladies does
This is amazing! I m looking for my dads birth mom. She gave him up when he was two! She even named him... The adoption records are sealed and it has been dead end after dead end.
I'm also a bio mom and really need a support group to open birth records in all 50 states. Massachusetts family court wouldn't let me cause go to trial and was supposed to have an open adoption which I think is closed as if I'm such a horrible person. An evaluation determined I'm neurodivergent. I have a good therapist now. I'm waiting patiently for reunification. We should organize for reunification
I met my Mom for the first time in 50 years. She was in a nursing home. I walked up to her and she hit me on side of my head with her cane and told me to help find her dentures. :(
I wasn’t adopted but I never felt loved or wanted in my family. My mother was a deeply wounded rejected by her mother. She did it to us as well except for my youngest sister.
Thank you so much. I found my mother in 1994 in Michigan. I just happen to call the right person and she left my birthmother's name at the bottom of my cut-out records. I did not realize there was a system to check if your mom is looking for you. Could you share that site with those that are looking? You take the chance of more rejection but you have to take the chance anyway! I am putting this on my adoption blog for sure! I am so happy for you two!
Unless their is some question of safety, I feel adoptees should be able to know from who and where they come if they choose. How heartbreaking to spend a life wondering and not having answers. Good luck to all adoptees who seek answers.
This story is so close to my own search and turns out so very happily. I will say had my birth family say the wanted no contact I would of been okay with that. By this time after 27 years of searching I was ready to hear anything and will to just ask for medical records. My heart goes out to all the happy and sad endings in these searches.
From the day I was born every week my 16 year old birth mother wrote me letters about how much she loved and missed me. My parents kept my adoption open and very known to me and my brother( he is Laotian we are all white haha) as well. My mother let me know how much they both loved me. My birth father was sent off to the navy. His parents cut him off from my birth and everything, but he found me and now we camp almost every summer. I have a close relationship with both my birth parents. I couldn’t be happier to have so many people who love me.
It does not hurt her to get to know her biological mom and have a relationship with her now that she's grown.Its her choice and who are we to object Her mom had her reasons she gave her up to give her a life she couldn't give her.I wish them the best so happy for them.
This was a wonderful story, and the slideshow was beautiful.......but u never mentioned your parents, and how they were involved. I hope that they were a part of your journey as well.❤❤❤
I am a Catholic Charities baby and my both adopted parents died 2017, every adopted child, wants to know who we look like, I was luved, and I luved. Every one of us wants to know why we were given up. But thank God I was loved. All I wish to know is my health history and who I look like?
I'm adopted but i've never meet my birth mother i know her name what she looks like but i've never been able to see her face to face my mom says she lives on the streets but i dont really care i want to meet her it would mean the world to me to meet her. Constantly I think what it would be like to be able to hug her for the first time.The same for my birth father i dont even know his name i dont know where he his or who he is but i need to know i've never had a father not even in the house im in now.all I know about him is that he is a Fire Fighter and that he WAS in the military.The best Days of my life are still to come
// MSPZeabra // I'm adopted, never knew my father, I have an older sister that I have never met. but she knows of me threw mid West adoptions. She has declined contact. She is 9 yrs older than me. My mother has been homeless my whole life as well. She is an alcoholic.
There are reasons why people give their children up for adoption and they're rarely good. I'm adopted and I completely understand the curiosity of wanting to know where we came from, who we look like, and getting the answers to all the question that we've struggled with our whole lives. That said, please be prepared for learning some difficult realities. Yes, you can find your parents and or family members and siblings but rarely do these things go beyond the initial meeting. I've got double digit siblings by the same two parents and several took very different paths in life. Just be cautious, meet them on neutral ground and don't share too much about your life until you know who you're dealing with.
Thank you for that but everyonez story is different.some people just take it upon themselves they want a kid and dont care about otherz involved or the reason their doing it.Its usually the adopted person that goes looking.not the other way around.If i had put a child up all i would want to know is if they had a good life.Seen enough of my friends and family die so if they had a good life.i would need to know nothing else.Good hunting to you.
Geesh... I have to imagine that some of those birth Mom's listed on the birth certificates had no idea that one day their info would be made available to the child they gave up. This story worked out so well for Mom and daughter, but surely that didn't happen in every case. Seems it could be heartbreaking for some for any number of reasons.
I only wish Vermont and new Hampshire would follow. i know i got an older sister who was born in Vermont and given up. I also know i have a twin sister who's been looking for me. I eagerly await for the day my missing half and i are together again.
A mother who chooses adoption makes that choice out of love. She loves her child more than she loves herself. I know that my birth mother loved me. I also know that she wasn't capable of raising a child. My mother had a hard life that ended when she was only 29 years old when she was murdered. I have met my biological family and it's easy to see why my mom lived the life she did and I feel blessed to have not grown up with those people. Could I make the choice my mother did? No. I'm not strong enough to make that choice, even if it was best for my child. I'm selfish and want him with me. It's not for him, it's for me.
My mother gave her baby up . She was 19 . Her daughter was nothing but Cruel to my mother. We lost out mother to cancer in 94 . My mother had a hard life. Non the less . I wish she could have retired and had some peace for a while.
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I helped my adoptive son find his birth mother and father. It was a mixed bag, but we wouldn't have done it any other way. I was with my son through the whole search, etc. Contrary to what others might expect, my son now feels closer to me than ever before. We took a risk and put it in God's hands. The questions had a weight to them that wasn't exactly accurate. Now, that they are answered, we are stronger than ever. Don't be afraid. The truth will set you free.
I hope Massachusetts will someday open adoption records. Right now we have to have a “good reason” do get access to our original birth certificates. It’s so unfair.
