Tag: adoptee relationships

Love, Relationships, and the Impact of Adoption

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Jonti reflects on how adoption trauma shaped his relationships, emotional reactions, and journey toward growth.

The Push-Pull Dance in Adoptee Relationships

On By lynellelongIn Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption2 Comments

Lynelle discusses the difficulties in relationships as an intercountry adoptee and why is love so difficult: attachment, bonding, connection and adoption.