Before the relinguishment, they told me anything I wanted to hear, even lying to me about promised correspondence until he was 18. They were “good Christians” who looked great on paper but their smiles and sweet, saccharine promises to my face were bogus. What I didn’t see was the underlying anger the adoptive mother had toward any woman who could conceive when she could not. That made for a very angry, bitter, hateful woman. Unlucky for me, the natural mother who’s child she got her hands on bore the brunt of that anger.

“Reunion” was no better. They treated me despicably when I found my child. How dare I. If I had a do over I would have never gone through with it. I don’t care what material possessions they provided, how many trips, vacations or private parochial schools- anyone who is capable of lying to someone when they are at their most vulnerable state to procure her infant has no business raising her child.

Proceed with caution.