tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953239816472596984.post8398929862212929951..comments2023-09-18T06:33:39.097-05:00Comments on Finding Christopher, Finding Myself: Acceptance?Susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929169562563801608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953239816472596984.post-40938267406785611432011-01-12T15:49:04.134-06:002011-01-12T15:49:04.134-06:00Amy, My heart bleeds for you. You are a brave bra...Amy, My heart bleeds for you. You are a brave brave woman! (((((hugs)))))<br /><br />Susie, You are a remarkably wonderful soul. I have had a vision of what I "hope" reunion will be like and what type of relationship I would love to have with my dd if/when I do find her or she finds me. I haven't wanted to think about the variables at play that may impact such a new relationship. It has been just too unpredictable, too overwhelming, and too far out of my control to worry about.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04440694520775692850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953239816472596984.post-40675583820633835972011-01-07T07:26:56.160-06:002011-01-07T07:26:56.160-06:00"In being vulnerable, I have begun finally to..."In being vulnerable, I have begun finally to live an authentic life"<br />I understand completely. Denial can feel like a very safe place to be but what's inside is still there eating away at our core. Sharing our stories frees us and makes us stronger. I think all of us in reunion have something we wish were different but then isn't that what we wish about all the decades previous?<br /><br />Thanks for sharing. I hope you continue to feel the gratitude that you know your son and that you share a closer relationship with him soon.Carlynne Hershberger, CPSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365785230628216814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953239816472596984.post-15177243331414634462011-01-07T06:29:57.474-06:002011-01-07T06:29:57.474-06:00I don't see how anything but good can come fro...I don't see how anything but good can come from this kind of acceptance Susie. <br /><br />Acceptance doesn't mean we have no hope, it just means exactly what you've said, "I accept where we are at right now. I rejoice in what we have right now."Campbellhttp://campbellscoup.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953239816472596984.post-25410163877635212432011-01-07T05:39:06.871-06:002011-01-07T05:39:06.871-06:00I have read your blog for awhile now. I never comm...I have read your blog for awhile now. I never commented because I always felt like I was "taking" away from your experience and that is the LAST thing I would ever want to do.<br /><br />My child was stolen .. I mean "adopted" by my mom's sister. They told my son (who is now 21) that I abused him, that his birth fathers family abused him, that I choose to NOT have a realtionship with him. When I emailed him and told him the TRUTH he told me "I don't care about the past. I don't want to think where I would be now without them (meaning the stealing family.)<br /><br />I wish I did not KNOW what they told him. How they justified their LIES. They stole my son, brainwashed him to hate me and it HURTS so VERY much!<br /><br />I wish to God that I DID NOT know what they had told him.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10822055842774694422noreply@blogger.com