[jbinnebose]

I am an adopted person. I have always felt like I was on the other side of a glass wall looking in on the family I was brought into. I am not really sure how this has affected my personal, romantic relationships, but I am completely content with being alone. I don't do well with the long haul. I have however been able to commit to a life time of love and commitment with my daughter. I raised her her whole life and cannot imagine not having her in my life. I do believe that in some cases it is harder to over come the "blood is thicker than water" syndrome, but I think that as an adopted person it is my own fault for sabotoging intimate relationships. We are not different from our siblings that were biological to our parents. We are their children too and we have to accept that. We may not look like them, we may not have inherited certain traits, but we are apart of them. They have accepted us they moment they chose to take us home. The real question is have we accepted them and the family they have made us apart of? Think about it, who put the wall up, you or them?