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I was lied to and did not find out the truth until I was almost 28. My adoptive mother was angry at me for wanting to know the truth about being adopted and is not okay with having a daughter that was adopted; she wants me to pretend I wasnt. My story is long and complicated so I wonҒt get into it. Funny thing is I mourned never having a real mother before I knew I was adopted and so when she cut ties with me it wasnt a major loss, in some ways more of a relief to not have to keep up such a superficial and destructive relationship with a woman that even though she adopted me at birth I never felt bonded with me. I try not to have these days often, but today I am having a pity party, mourning that I never had that loving caring nurturing mother that I am super jealous of those I know that do have. It is so hard not to think something is wrong with me, like why am I not lovable by my own mother? I have virtually no family. I pay a counselor to listen to me once a week; if I had a mother I donҒt think Id need to. I look at my own children, granted I am a womb/birth bonder, but I would like to believe if they were adopted I would still feel blessed and love them the same because they are my own children. I canҒt imagine anything they could do that would make me not want to be their mom anymore. I know this is about my (a)mother, she has cut her mother and sister out of her life for over a decade before; so Im not the only one she has cut out of her life before. I was just curious if anyone else has been cut out of their adoptive families livesҒ? I am grateful for who I am which is in part due to my life experiences, but sometimes I cant help but wonder how my life could have been different if someone with a heart for adoption had adopted me instead.
I am so sorry. :( I hate to hear you are going through this.
My adoptive mom is deceased, but my adoptive father has been cold and mean througout my reunion. He keeps comparing me to my adoptive brother, saying how great he is, and saying how I was "such a self-centered" child and how my brother was "such a people person" "so nice" "so successful" etc. I was definitely never the favorite. I know to an extent how you feel! I have to go because my lunch hour is over, but feel free to email me at thruthestorm1122@yahoo.com if you wish. I know it's a tough road and I'm travelling it to! Praying for you.
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I too feel for you and wish I could make your pain go away. Our situations are surprisingly similar you see. My A mom has a history of discarding relationships (her mother, and one birth daughter, and a brother, and me). She is a hateful woman who will never be happy. Also I have virtually no family as my birth mother has rejected me twice. If I can give any advice our help it is to love your own children without condition and be there for them NO MATTER WHAT! I am sure you already know this. BTW, we all have our pity parties and is is quite normal. . Non adoptees can not know this brand of hurt. :(
Its not you. Its them.
Like a "REAL" mother. I like to think that if I were an adoptive mom, that I would be able to love my babies because they were my babies. But it isn't like that for some. My adoptive mother has told me recently that if she had it to do over again, then she wouldn't have adopted me in the first place and even if she had, she would have tried harder to send me back. She did send my sister back and for that, my sister is irreperably damaged. (Along with so many other things). My birth family and I have only recently started contact although I had already met my birthmom and it was horrible. Now, just this week I find that my adoptive mom had already talked with one of my birth brothers when I was 15 (and she dumped me off on him) that I had asked to be sexually molested by her father supposedly when I was 14.
1) NO ONE asks for that.
2) He did that to me when I was 7! Not 14!
3) Why would she tell him that to begin with?
4) She had to have because how else would he know about it to tell my 1/2 sister whom I have never met only talked to on the phone about it?
I am now 32, not talking to my adoptive mother, confused and angry and unsure what to do about this....
Adoptive parents can be wonderful but my adoptive mother was a social worker so conflict of interest comes to mind. She always treated me like I was one of the cases she dealt with at her job...and it hurts. Even now.