Transfiguring Adoption: “A Spouse’s Love for an Adoptee”
This blog article shares the author’s experiences and perspective about what it’s like to be the spouse of an adoptee. He empathizes with his wife’s…
Resource Type: Blog
Adoption.com: Spouse of adoptee issues/support
This forum is dedicated to supporting spouses of adoptees. It addresses attachment issues, self-blaming, and trust and commitment issues. These perspectives are not universally true…
Colorado Marriage Retreats: “Do People Who Are Adopted Have Trouble Loving?”
This article answers whether adoptees have trouble with trust, intimacy, and attachment in romantic relationships. The author is the partner of an adoptee and a…
Adoptee Restoration: “Adoptees and Trust Issues with Spouses and Significant Others”
This blog article shares the author’s experiences about how she overcame trust issues with her spouse. The center of the story is about how she…
Adoptee Restoration: “Trusting & Fully Loving Your Spouse or Significant Other (10 Important Choices adoptees Can Make)”
This blog article shares the author’s experiences with creating trust and love with her spouse. She lists ten choices that adoptees can make in their…
ReunionEyes
This blog shares an adoptee’s experience about reunion with her birth family. It offers insight about how the experience has impacted her identity and how…
White Sugar Brown Sugar
A blog by a mom about her adopted children. She doesn’t disclose their names or faces out of respect and describes her adoptions as domestic,…
Creating a Family: “A Dialog Between an Adoptive Parent and an Adult Adoptee”
An adoptive parent’s blog about how reading adoptee’s stories and opinions worries her. Adult adoptee responds by addressing her fears. This is a good resource…
Psychology Today: “Adult Adoptee Voices Are Changing Adoption Narrative”
An article written by a Korean-American adoptee about the Side by Side project, where adoptees discuss their lives, relationships, and origins. Side by Side also…
Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee
The blog of Christina Romo — a Korean adoptee, mom, wife, and advocate. She details her life, thoughts on adoption, and provides the perspective of…
Confessions of an Adoptee
A Tumblr blog for adoptees of all ages and situations to share their feelings, experiences, worries, fears, and ambitions. This is a safe space for…
A Chinese Adoptee’s Journey
The blog of an adult Chinese-American adoptee which explores her feelings and experiences regarding adoption.
