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After much debate and lip chewing, I finally called my parents the afternoon after Suzanna was born. They took it better than I had expected, and I now wish I'd talked to them sooner.
We did choose adoption and my parents are having to deal with meeting their granddaughter and saying goodbye to her all in the course of a very short time. They're hurt and I do feel some guilt about that.
I think if I had a do-over I'd have told them earlier. Even if they'd exploded and disowned me like I'd been afraid of it wouldn't have weighed on me so much.
As for Jeff, there wasn't much "telling" of his family required. His mom was the one who basically kicked us to get my mysterious wieght gain figured out. And his dad is the one who's helping us wade through the adoption paperwork. ... And his half-sister is our daughter's new mom. So there has been alot of support and involvement on that end. Never real pressure though, they'd have been there for us if we'd have decided to keep and raise her too.
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