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Originally Posted by julie23
I relinquished my parental rights and consented to the adoption.
now... this might just seem like semantics to a lot of people... but to me... this was like a light bulb going off in a dark room... really.. an aha moment...
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I bet it was!! I just had one myself.
I always understood what relinquishment meant however I never saw it a absolving me of my responsibilities so I could “move on” or “get on with my life”.
While, being a parent was no longer my job, becoming the person that my son would be proud to call his mother absolutely was!!! I made some pretty good choices early on in life because I embraced this and still do today.
I call him my son because he is and always will be to me. For him to call me his “Mom” is still to be determined by him. However, I know I have tried very hard to earn that honor for the pat 26 years and I’m proud of that.
So thanks for the words and I will use them going forward with only a slight addition:
I relinquished my parental rights and consented to the adoption. I never relinquished my responsibility.