Heartbroken - Attachment - And Loss
---Warning----Long Post----You May Cry---- First, I apologize in advance for any spelling errors or grammar mistakes but I am sure you will understand the spirit and intent of this post. Really it is a therapy letter for myself and you are invited on this journey with me. Our intention was never to become so attached to a child that we would feel the emotional grief others had warned us about when beginning this journey unless it was OUR CHILD (meaning they were available for adoption). How naïve, I know. I had thought I had safeguards in place to protect against that. But I failed to acknowledge the possibility of what we just went through over the last couple of weeks. The safeguards we had placed were that since we began this journey with the intention to adopt we were only looking at those kiddos that would be placed in our care that would not be returning home to their birth parents, meaning they were in full state guardianship. However, to get ...