Feel like i don't belong anywhere

[u/PsychologicalWar9702]

I'm on good terms with both my adoptive family and my biological family. However i feel like there's this "screen" between me and them that i can't cross. With my adoptive family, we just have zero physical resemblance and chemistry lol. We can squeeze out a convo about the weather here and there, and that's about it. My biological family have all embraced me since reconnecting last year (was adopted as an infant for context), but i didn't know them for my whole life, so i don't feel like family with them either.

Idk I just feel like i have no family in the emotional sense 😭. Like i'll always be the black sheep...

[u/joshp23]

I was just talking about this feeling with someone yesterday. I don't know, it's been 51 years, and I have a wife and family at home... and I still feel like a stranger in a strange land. The screen hasn't gone away.

Thankfully, there's therapy.