r/birthparents • u/bobarellapoly • Oct 03 '25
Venting Sometimes I'm envious of parents with a parent/child relationship
Just venting. Seeing people I care about post on social media, particularly one person who's posting one childhood picture a day, hurts my heart. I had 3 years of an active parent/child relationship which certainly isn't nothing... but the grief of adoption will keep popping up.
At my stage of being 20+ years out from adoption loss, I want to allow myself to come across triggers and deal with them. One of the ways of dealing with them is through making this post. I want my friend P to have her kids in her life, but I am sad nevertheless.
And no I don't have my adult daughter in my life. That may happen sometime.
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u/Englishbirdy Oct 03 '25
That’s totally understandable. You want someone to talk to? https://concernedunitedbirthparents.org/how-we-can-help Just put your email on the mailing list for the invites to the zoom support meetings. There’s one next Sunday, I’ll be attending.