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When adoption creates competing family loyalties

I'm adopted and my birth mother found me on social media but my adoptive parents are acting like I'm cheating on them by talking to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiple family systems can generate impossible choices about love, loyalty, and identity formation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Family identity and inherited stories?”

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