I'll go!
I'm Jenna and the Forum Host around these parts.
My connection to Open Adoption is this: I am an Open Adoption Birthmother to Munchkin, placed in a fully open adoption in 2003. We have AIM conversations, emails, pictures, letters, gifts and quarterly visits. Our adoption was not legally binding (no such thing in PA) but we have a good faith (or a "morally binding agreement") agreement written up stating that both adult parties to adoption intend to keep in contact. No specifics as we find our relationship ebbs and flows over time. We have become more than a legal connection; we have become friends and extended family.
I sometimes, personally, have a hard time dealing with certain adoption related issues. There are moments of hurt and self-doubt but at the same time, I am fully blessed in the fact that things are as good as they are... I don't take anything for granted. When I'm having a hard time dealing with adoption related issues, I either come here or spend a few weeks doing some private soul-searching. It just depends on what I need to do at that time.
Feel free to contact me with any questions you have on this forum or anything else. I don't frequently bite.
