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great insight!
I think you are so right. We are just paperchasing now, but as we have been in the research/decision phase, I have thought many times how my experience with infertility has affected my perspective and reactions. It's good in my case that my husband has been far less emotional and helped me see things more clearly.
I, too, am coming to the place where I can embrace being "different". It's tough to do that when all your peers are are building their families in ways that feel so foreign to you (ie, pregnancy). I remember one crying spell when I said to my husband, "I just want to be like everyone else...and now we are going off to adopt a kid who won't even LOOK like us!" It sounds so silly to say that now! Again, I think it was the ol' IF baggage. Honestly, I am enjoying the idea of our family being "special" because of adoption.
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