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I have been in a wonderful reunion with my birthfamily for the past year. I have learned so much. My mom and I have a wonderful connection, we are exactly the same in almost every way. I always imagined she and i would be very different people. Also for the past year, due to completely un-involved events, my adoptive family and I have not spoken. We have been very distant for some years now. This Thanksgiving I am not sure what to do. My mom and her boyfriend have invited me, my husband, and our son to their home in Cali for the holiday with her whole side of the family. (My dad is in a different area and they dont talk)
I am not sure what my adopted familys plans for thanksgiving are but I can pretty much guarantee we wont be included. We were not last year for thanksgiving or christmas, or any other holiday this year.
I am thinking of doing thanksgiving with my mom and her side of the family, but a part of me cant help but feel as though my adopted family would push me away even further.
Story of me and my adopted family and why things are the way they are: My mother took complete control of my wedding and did it how she wanted and ignored all our wishes and my husbands side of the family. My adopted family completely alienated his family without taking the chance to get to know any of them. My mother is a controlling narcissist and has been for many years. Last year I stood up to her and tried to express how she makes me feel, like any child should be able to do with their parent, and in doing so, i was horribly marked as a black sheep and everyone turned their backs on me.
I want to feel free to love my birth family and be loved by them just as much, without thinking about or feeling guilty for it because of my adopted family. I was the one taken by the state and my parents fought tooth and nail to not lose me, in the end they were allowed to place me with the two people who raised me. I was almost 3 when adopted.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on what I should do for the holiday? What may be a smart safe option? Also, my families live in two states, birth family in north cali and adopted in north new mexico. So going from one to the other to be with both (if im even invited to adopted familys) isnt an option.
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Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on what I should do for the holiday? What may be a smart safe option? Also, my families live in two states, birth family in north cali and adopted in north new mexico. So going from one to the other to be with both (if im even invited to adopted familys) isnt an option.
You should go and have a wonderful time in Cali for Thanksgiving, or any other holiday or time for that matter. Being an adult adoptee I get that you do not want to upset your adoptive family, but they turned their backs on you and you haven't spoken to them in a year. They didn't invite you to Thanksgiving (or any other holiday) last year and have not yet invited you (and may very well not) to Thankgiving this year.
You said you have been in reunion for the past year, and that you havent spoken to your adoptive family for the past year (due to the wedding events not the reunion).....but I couldnt tell from that if your adoptive family knows about the reunion or not. Irregardless...since you havent had a relationship with your adoptive family for the past year I dont think having Thanksgiving with your birth mom could push them away further. They already seem far away.
You should not feel guilty for wanting to be around birth family. Easier said than done right?! Guilt is one of the biggest reasons why I have not contacted my birth family. I think a lot of us adoptees live under that shroud. Your adoptive mother may use that guilt to keep you way from your birth family, either due to her own insecurities or just her own control issues. I know mine does.
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