And, to be willing to undertake this labor of love without the ego of replicating your own genetic line is especially beautiful. For you to go through the extra struggle to become an adoptive family that deals with the lifelong challenges that are entailed, you deserve to honor yourself deeply. Reflecting on our youth, many of us recall periodic family gatherings and class reunions. Each time one of these reunions organize, we're usually anxious to again revel in memories and camaraderie with families and old friends. Thoughts invariable turn nostalgic as we recall the good old days of a bygone era.
Reunions have that affect on most people in general.
The idea of a reunion invokes warm feelings and emotions, as well as behaviors that help us recapture something we feel we need to return to, even if only for the magic of the moment. Adoption based reunions can invoke similar feelings, although the feelings aren't derived from prior experience nor personal familiarity. Feelings and emotions for adoption based reunions come from a place deep within - a place often indescribable by its own participants. These reunions involve a type of magic or illusion that are unique from alumni or family type reunions. Unfortunately, one of the major obstacles before most reunions is the attitudes and prevailing behaviors during the approach and maintenance of a reunion once a search has concluded.