Quote From: caprell43I am 37 years old, and I was adopted at five weeks old. I was raised by a loving, Christain couple, and I always knew that I was adopted. As I grew older, the need and desire to find my birth mother only intensified. I had very limited information, but I did know the name of the adoption agency that was used. When I was 33, I contacted the adoption agency and requested my family medical history (which I knew I was legally entitled to obtaining). The agency then contacted me with some very surprising news. Ironically, someone in my birth family had contacted the agency and updated my family medical history records within that same year. This was a huge "wow" moment for me, for I knew someone must be looking for me, as well. The agency then advised me to register with several Reunion Registry websites (for they had already advised my family member to do the same), and upon making a "match" (based on my birthday and general location), I would be contacted. In a few weeks time, I received that phone call!!! They provided me with my birth mother's name, phone number, and location. By that afternoon, I was talking with her on the phone and making arrangements for our meeting. What a fabulous moment! The meeting was as wonderful as I had dreamed, and our strong relationship now is everything I'd hoped it would be. I have healed emotionally in so many areas of my life due to this event. I have siblings (4 maternal) and (2 paternal). The happiness and joy I feel are beyond words. It is my prayer for those who are searching to never give up the hope that their story will end as happily as mine. God bless you in your search.
Do you realize just how lucky you are to have a good relationship with the extended family? But you don't say how your loving parents are feeling about the "new family". My sister found her birth "mother", and I use that word loosely. Her "mother" is a tramp, and a lying whore. She isn't what any child would want for a mother, let alone a grandmother. Nicole( the tramp) insists on my sis calling her mom, and the woman who raised her by her name. The hell with that, but my sis is so infactuated with her birth mother she does as she asks. I could kill them both, my sister and the lying whore. Meanwhile our mother sits and cries because her heart has been ripped out. I just hope you don't discuss the new family with the one who lovingly raised you. No matter what your real MOM says, it does hurt to be replaced when she did all the work. Your real mom, the one who raised you, deserves a lot more than a woman you just met. Blood or not.
