https://adoption.com/how-to-approach-a-birth-family-member-youve-just-found
Just dial the phone number, send out a letter, write that email, friend that person on Facebook . . . it's so easy! I am telling you to stop after you get the information because you need to allow time for the address, the phone number, the photo—whatever you've found—to become real to you. It has been a fantasy up until this point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/i-found-my-biological-parents-and-wish-i-hadnt.html
The tepid contact with my biological mother dampened my curiosity about my birth parents, but it never entirely left me. Later, when I had time on my hands, I trawled an adoption Web site

https://newhopeinvestigations.com/blog/how-to-make-initial-contact-with-a-birth-parent/2020/4/6
Searcher: "As I said, my name is Rachele' Davis and I'm a private investigator in Missouri. My client was born Eliza Marie Wendell at Wayne County General Hospital in Detroit on May 2, 1983 and placed for adoption." Person found: (Pause) "Oh my. I've always wondered if she would try to find me. I don't know what to say.

https://www.boredpanda.com/adopted-people-met-biological-parents/
I was adopted at birth and met my biological mother the day before my 18th birthday. We have a good relationship but not close (she is east coast I am south coast). ... I've meet my biological mom, she was 19nwhen she had me. For my biological dad he came from Jordan and told my bio mom a different name, so I've never meet him. The US

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/622545261/i-found-my-birth-mother-it-didnt-rock-my-life-and-that-s-ok
A fan blew quietly in the corner. It was here, she said, where the reunions happen. Sister Lea and I sat and chatted about my birth mother, Lucita Timbal Picana, who is 52. She is from Bohol, a

https://consideringadoption.com/what-if-i-dont-want-to-meet-my-birth-parents/
Others are still grappling with complicated emotions like grief, anger, loss and regret. Instead of feeling excited at the opportunity to meet their birth parents, they're angry and hurt when they think about the life they could have had. If your situation sounds closer to the second option, we want to reassure you that those feelings are normal.

https://vanish.org.au/never-say-never-how-i-met-my-mother/
It was the mid-1990s when I found the good people at VANISH, who quickly discovered my birth mother and sent her a message I was looking for her. Unfortunately, my birth all those years prior had created a rift in her family, with little support and a ghastly outlook for a frightened 19-year-old girl. My birth father never knew of the pregnancy.

https://www.thecut.com/2023/12/esther-calling-survivors-guilt-addict-birth-mom.html
Esther: I don't know if you heard when I inserted, "My adoptive mother is in pain, my biological mother is in pain," and I added, "and so are you.". And I would hope that you didn't become an acupuncturist or a healer to numb your own feelings. Your biological mother has often not been a mother. She wants you to parent her.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/05/154079/what-its-like-to-be-adopted-emotional-letter
Womer says that her entire life is a love letter to her birth mom and to her adoptive parents. "I try to live each day with intention, to be kind to others, to smile, to be open to new

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/do-we-have-right-know-our-biological-parents/620405/
"I've had a couple people that are sort of like, 'I don't get it. Those people aren't really your family. Why do you want anything to do with this?'" she told me.

https://adoption.org/biological-family-doesnt-want-meet
Ashley Foster is a freelance writer. She is a wife and mother of two currently residing in Florida. She loves taking trips to the beach with her husband and sons. As an infant, she was placed with a couple in a closed adoption. Ashley was raised with two sisters who were also adopted. In 2016, she was reunited with her biological family.

https://wehavekids.com/family-relationships/When-Long-Lost-Biological-Family-Contacts-You
Being Contacted by Long-Lost Family. In the past five years, I have been contacted by my biological father and my three biological half-brothers. Before this contact, I knew little about these people who shared my DNA and had no idea of their whereabouts. In the case of my father, the experience was overwhelmingly positive and turned into a

https://www.sistersletter.com/we-time/what-meeting-my-birth-mother-taught-me-about-family
After I was adopted at age 3, my later-in-life reunion with my birth mother changed me in unexpected ways. By Mariette Williams. Diana Ejaita. My earliest childhood memory is on an American Airlines flight leaving Haiti. I remember wearing a blue dress with frilly white trim, and my new mother handing me a doll that looked like me.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a36049/finding-birth-mother/
A decade passed. Cynthia married and started a family. Her mom passed away. Then, when she was 30, an unexpected letter changed everything. The adoption agency wrote to inform her that, "'pursuant

https://www.lovewhatmatters.com/adoptee-meets-biological-mother/
She sacrificially gave me up for adoption so that I could have a wonderful life. My adoptive parents always stressed to me how much she loved me and how sad she was to give me up for adoption. I would always hang on to that when I felt misunderstood or frustrated with my parents. Advertisement. Courtesy of Anna Bernacki.

https://www.professional-counselling.com/find-your-biological-father.html
Here are some of the psychological effects people have experienced not having known their 'real' dad: Feeling betrayed by your mother (and other family members) who may have kept the secret or lied. Feeling like you don't belong or 'fit in' anywhere. Feeling alone and lonely, even when you're in company.

https://www.freep.com/story/life/advice/2017/12/12/when-deciding-whether-contact-biological-father-dont-act-haste/940919001/
Dear Carolyn: When I was 18, my mother revealed that the father I grew up with was not my biological father. She claimed she didn't even know my bio father, and never contacted him again after

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Zy3kQr-0w
Everyone mother's day is tricky for me.Thanks for watching and all the kind responses I've received on Facebook and via Emailhttp://facebook.com/RyanJonOnlin

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/if-the-biological-has-never-met-or-been-around-can-1901791.html
My son will be 12 soon and his biological dad has never met him or spoken to him etc. My son doesn't want to meet him yet. He gets very upset to talk about it. Will a judge force my child to meet him when he's not ready? This could cause serious mental distress for my son and I just want to protect him. He's not on the birth certificate but he

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/met-birth-mother-27-realized-130701619.html
The meeting with my birth mother did not go well From the moment we sat down in Panera, I knew she never wanted me. For starters, she didn't seem sorry about giving me up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/2lb4eu/ive_18m_never_met_my_biological_father_and_ive/
My parents split up before I was born. I never met my biological father, and all I've ever known about him is his name, that he's Irish and that he was a 'bastard who didn't want me'. ... Plus my mother married shortly after I was born, and although her and my stepdad split a few years ago, I have and always will think of him as my dad, so I'd

https://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2012/01/13/an-open-letter-to-my-now-deceased-biological-father-whom-i-never-met/
You can if you're me and you've just found out through a little Google digging that the biological father you never met passed away six months ago. Well, it's not entirely accurate to say I "never met" him. He and my mother were only married six months. I was born after they divorced.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/1uso3y/this_past_summer_i_met_my_biological_mother_for/
Unfortunately she lives in another state so I've only gotten to actually see her once, but we still chat when we get a chance. ... I'm 25 right now, have never met my biological mother. I don't even know how she looks like, let alone know her name. I'm probably going to attempt to reach out to her this year. Glad to see your experience was a