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<blockquote data-quote="Just keep swimming" data-source="post: 11660" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>Thank you all so much. Sorry, I am not much support to anyone else right now, by back is reall bad and this whole thing with Aly has done me in.</p><p></p><p>therapist and Aly and I came up with a way for Aly to express her feelings about bio family: she started a journal with drawings and such. I got into it with her, letting her use all my crafting/stamping supplies. She wants husband to pull out all our old pictures of when we were little, any old family photos from our family and her "birth/adoption" story book this weekend so that she can copy the pictures and put them in her journal. It is supposed to be crummy weather here this weekend and it is something I can help her with from my "throne" on the couch! </p><p></p><p>I talked with an adult adoptee friend of mine and she said her "emptiness" didn't start till she was about 14, but when it did, she acted out in horrible ways to hurt her adoptive family and ended up running away to find her bios when she was 16. She found bio mom and mom was in horrible shape, drugging, etc. My friend ended up going back "home" when she was 17 and started to really feel that her adoptive placement was her "real" family. Encouraging, yet scary at the same time. She and Aly are close and she wants to take Aly "shopping" sometime soon so that they can chat a bit. I thank God for this intelligent, brave woman, she is such a blessing in our lives! </p><p></p><p>I suspect this will be an ongoing struggle for our Miss Aly but one I pray we can help her through.</p><p></p><p>Thank you to all my cyber family, you guys are ALWAYS here for me! </p><p></p><p>Love to you all,</p><p>Vickie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Just keep swimming, post: 11660, member: 211"] Thank you all so much. Sorry, I am not much support to anyone else right now, by back is reall bad and this whole thing with Aly has done me in. therapist and Aly and I came up with a way for Aly to express her feelings about bio family: she started a journal with drawings and such. I got into it with her, letting her use all my crafting/stamping supplies. She wants husband to pull out all our old pictures of when we were little, any old family photos from our family and her "birth/adoption" story book this weekend so that she can copy the pictures and put them in her journal. It is supposed to be crummy weather here this weekend and it is something I can help her with from my "throne" on the couch! I talked with an adult adoptee friend of mine and she said her "emptiness" didn't start till she was about 14, but when it did, she acted out in horrible ways to hurt her adoptive family and ended up running away to find her bios when she was 16. She found bio mom and mom was in horrible shape, drugging, etc. My friend ended up going back "home" when she was 17 and started to really feel that her adoptive placement was her "real" family. Encouraging, yet scary at the same time. She and Aly are close and she wants to take Aly "shopping" sometime soon so that they can chat a bit. I thank God for this intelligent, brave woman, she is such a blessing in our lives! I suspect this will be an ongoing struggle for our Miss Aly but one I pray we can help her through. Thank you to all my cyber family, you guys are ALWAYS here for me! Love to you all, Vickie [/QUOTE]
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