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Adoptive parents: Would you do it again?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 748744" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>My son will do that, too. Call me by my first name. It cuts like a knife, and makes me mad too. But I think non-adopted kids do this too. I think they do this to get a foot up over us. I think it's defensive rather than coming from a place of uncaring. I think they often feel very vulnerable and inadequate and they need us very much and don't like that one bit. They try to pull the rug out from under us because better to make us feel bad that that feel so. In psychology this is called displacement. Putting your discomfiting feelings into somebody else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 748744, member: 18958"] My son will do that, too. Call me by my first name. It cuts like a knife, and makes me mad too. But I think non-adopted kids do this too. I think they do this to get a foot up over us. I think it's defensive rather than coming from a place of uncaring. I think they often feel very vulnerable and inadequate and they need us very much and don't like that one bit. They try to pull the rug out from under us because better to make us feel bad that that feel so. In psychology this is called displacement. Putting your discomfiting feelings into somebody else. [/QUOTE]
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