Thank you for your heartfelt piece. "Reunion" has been an ongoing journey since I aspired to knowing the woman who gave me life, and laid eyes on her in 1993. Since then, each bio family connection is a reunion of greater or lesser significance to me. No matter how well we connect, severence from bio family is at the core of our relationships.
Thank you, Emily, for your thoughtful insights into being “in reunion.” Although I’m not sure that my daughter (who found me five years ago) and I are “in reunion” as you describe it, I know that the connection we do have can be messy, difficult, painful, and filled with joy as well as longing. My daughter keeps me in her orbit as Gramma to her two children and I accept that I can love my daughter by showering love on my grandchildren (even if she shies away from more direct expressions of my love). This is what adoption did to us and is still doing.
Thank you for your heartfelt piece. "Reunion" has been an ongoing journey since I aspired to knowing the woman who gave me life, and laid eyes on her in 1993. Since then, each bio family connection is a reunion of greater or lesser significance to me. No matter how well we connect, severence from bio family is at the core of our relationships.
Thank you, Emily, for your thoughtful insights into being “in reunion.” Although I’m not sure that my daughter (who found me five years ago) and I are “in reunion” as you describe it, I know that the connection we do have can be messy, difficult, painful, and filled with joy as well as longing. My daughter keeps me in her orbit as Gramma to her two children and I accept that I can love my daughter by showering love on my grandchildren (even if she shies away from more direct expressions of my love). This is what adoption did to us and is still doing.
Sounds like reunion to me! Best of luck to you and your daughter. Wishing you the best xoxo