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Open Adoption Hardships
Open adoption is wonderful, but some things can be hard. It's an important to have an understanding of all the hard parts so you can be better equipped to handle them. Check out this article https://adoption.com/the-pain-in-open-adoption and take the
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Annaleece Merrill replied on Annaleece Merrill's thread "Resentment".
I can definitely see how hard that would be for you. I know a couple of birth moms that got married right after placement. Usually it's to men they didn't know when they placed, and a lot of them have a hard time with it too, thinking "what if I had just met him six months earlier, then maybe I wouldn't have had to place." It's tough on all sides.
Annaleece Merrill replied on Ashley Foster's thread "More effort for birth family".
I feel like that's totally normal. I put a ton more thought and effort in to gifts and cards for my birth daughter and her family than I do for any of my immediate family, and more than my parents did for me. I know it's not exactly the same because I'm on the other side, but the making up for lost time totally makes sense.
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I have mixed feelings about this quote. I totally agree that adoptive parents are 100 percent real parents through love. Maybe I'm just being oversensitive because I'm a birth mom, but I feel like thi...
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Any meme that includes a dig at biology, dna, etc., fails, a statement must be able to stand on it's own merits. "Father through Love" stands on it's own merit.
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That's a great point. You don't need to take away from one part of the picture to add to another.