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do you ever feel the need to explain your family?
close friends and relatives know how my family was formed and i don't care what strangers think, but sometimes i feel the need to qualify that my kids are adopted to aquaitinces.
for example, i was at a wedding over the weekend of a close childhood friend. a lot of her cousins and aunts and uncles that i knew as a child were there. of course the subject of marriage and kids came up and before i knew it i was explaining that while i am single i have two kids through adoption, so they would not think i am just having kids with different men. why i did it i don't know. how do you handle these situations??? or does it just bother me?
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