This past month has been challenging time for all of us. Our routines and rituals have been force to transition based upon the concerns surrounding social distancing and an unforgivable pandemic. While I am sure, one day we will look back upon this time with humbling respect for all the personal traumas so many have endured, a great many of us are playing a balancing act between home and work life at an unprecedented level.
Back when I first started my search in 2014 it became clear that it was going to be an uphill battle. I knew nothing about DNA test taking and certainly no clue how to interpret it for finding birth relatives. I started by reaching out to my matches, no matter how distant it became frustrated by the lack of responses. Everything was a waiting game. How long would it take before I even had a chance of making progress.
Each an everyday for an adoptee actively involved in a search is like taking care of a seriously ill close family member. They require your constant attention and draw upon your own physical and emotional reserves to keep themselves from collapsing into a mess…
