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I'm an adopted adult. My parents couldn't have children biologically, but they adopted 3 of us (at separate times). I know my parents love me very much -- certainly as much as they would have loved a bio child. Yet even now, 43 years later, my mother mourns never having gotten pregnant. She firmly believes that when she gets to Heaven, she'll finally get to experience pregnancy and childbirth. To her it just wouldn't be Heaven without that.
Adoption makes you a mother, but I don't imagine it could fully heal the wound left by not being able to experience something that it is so normal to want. Just as adoption provides a child with a home, but it doesn't fully heal the would left by being separated from that original family.
So even though I haven't experienced what you're talking about, I think it must be perfectly normal to find that adoption doesn't wipe out the desire for pregnancy. My respect goes out to those who are strong enough to acknowledge it.
Melissa
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Straight ..... and pretty sure the second greatest commandment is "love your neighbor," not "make sure your neighbor doesn't do anything mentioned in Leviticus"
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