Michelle “Meisha”
I heard a young woman on the Wally show today talk about being adopted and how she (and other adopted kids) have a sense of abandonment. I want her to know, I am a birth mother that had to give my baby up for adoption in 1994. There is not one single day has has gone by that I don’t think about her or regret my decision. I’ve been down the road of self destruction for it too. I’ve had to seek counseling. Sometimes the birth parent doesn’t feel like she has any other choice because of her circumstances. I pray that my daughter feels loved because I gave her away. I pray that ever adopted child knows that it was the single hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. And forgiving myself for it is a daily struggle. Time does not heal this wound.