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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Any adoptees here?
A good friend of mine (since high school) just emailed me that she received a letter last week from post-adoption services telling her that her birth mother has initiated contact with them and would like to meet her. Wow! She's a bundle of emotions right now: anger, fear, confusion. When she was 18 or so, she briefly considered underaking a search for her birth mother, but decided against it.
I really don't know what to say to her. I used to work with post-adoption and some of those reunions aren't very successful. Anyone with any experience to share?
Re: Any adoptees here?
I have an older sister who was put up for adoption at birth. We've contacted her and we're friends on FB, but we don't talk often. We're on good enough terms, we just didn't have enough in common to maintain a friendship, I guess.
I don't know if you need to say anything to her. Just be there to listen. Maybe this reunion will work out, and maybe it won't, but only time will tell.
my SIL, FIL and his mother were all adopted. SIL has not pursued it at all, and doesn't seem to want to. FIL recently (~10 yrs ago = age 55) found his family (half sister and others)... and has had a great relationship with them since. He is interested in getting DH to meet them, but DH has no interest at all. DH's grandmother was also adopted, and had lots of contact with her biological family - invloved in lots of family events from a young age.
its different for everyone... I just say be there to support her. Its gotta be so tough when they contact you, but you aren't so interested.