This is a beginner-friendly resource for adoptees who want to understand how adoption affects their relationships. The webpage features guides about friends, birth family searches, reunion, attachment theory, and more.
This article answers whether adoptees have trouble with trust, intimacy, and attachment in romantic relationships. The author is the partner of an adoptee and a licensed MFT. Her advice is empathetic, supportive, and could help anybody interested in improving a relationship affected by adoption.
This blog article gives an adoptee’s perspective on how adoptees handle dating, attachment styles, and feelings. This resource might help adoptees explain how their identity and attachment formations affect their romantic relationships.
This blog article shares the author’s experiences with creating trust and love with her spouse. She lists ten choices that adoptees can make in their relationship to create stronger relationships. This resource will benefit adoptees who are addressing their trust and attachment issues with their partner.
This article explains how people’s relationships are affected if they’re adopted. It explains how adoptees often fear rejection, abandonment, and change or have low self-esteem. It also encourages adoptees to seek therapy in order to better understand themselves and their relationships.
This article is about the red flags that adoptees should avoid when searching for a partner. Every adoptee and partnership is different, so this article doesn’t provide a very nuanced understanding of relationships. However, this is a good beginner-friendly resource for anybody starting to date and seeking a healthy, long-term relationship.
This blog article shares the author’s experiences about how she overcame trust issues with her spouse. The center of the story is about how she worked through the decision to give her husband access to her medical information. This is a good resource for adoptees who are figuring out how and why to remedy trust issues with their spouse.
The Chile Adoption Birth Family Search Facebook group is for helping Chilean adoptees to search for their birth families in Chile and reconnect with their birth families. As of 2020, they celebrated 10 years of searches and 300 successful birth family searches.
The KAA Facebook group is a private page for Korean adoptees to create community and discuss whatever topics they’d like.
This is a public Facebook group for Korean adoptees who are searching for their birth families. Its’s open to all Korean adoptees to publish photos and information about their adoption. Members are encouraged to help one another and strictly publish information about their adoption.
