Being Adopted When Things Go Wrong
There are times in our lives that we have to face the truth no matter how painful and desperately we do not want to. The truth of the day shadows the moments of the past and uncovering long ago truths that we did not and could not conceive of being the truth. In time the truth does come out, leaving us questioning every moment and memory of our life. Could I have been seeing things with my rose-colored glasses because without them what I saw was too unbearable?
One event can open your eyes to what you have been hiding from for years or truthfully your lifetime. I am facing this in my life right now because of my mom (adoptive) and my adoption. I have talked about my relationship with my mom being strained but that was probably wishful thinking. My mom has decided that she does not want anything to do with me or my sister, also adopted but she continues her relationship with her birth daughter. My mom believes that we will just ended up hurting her again or a least that is what she is saying. I am not sure I believe this at all. I have been in contact with her for a little over a year by phone since she moved thousands miles away. I thought we were working on our relationship but now, I have been told that she was just going along with it without meaning anything.
I do realize that I have caused her pain and wounded her which I have repeatedly apologized for. In relationships people make mistakes and learn from them. We all hurt the people we love in our lives at some point. The funny thing is that with all my continued apologizing, my mom has never once apologized for hurting me. We all do things in this life that we are not proud of, and that hurt people around us.
I do wander if things would be different if we were her birth daughters?
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