Today, I met my biological parents for the first time, 29 years into my life. They turned out to be two of the most pathetic people I have ever met, and the meeting ended after they asked me to lend them money because I "literally owe them my life." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I met my biological father for the first time. He seemed to be slightly intoxicated from the outset, and less than half an hour later, he had tried to intimidate me into "loaning" him several hundred euros for reasons he wouldn't tell me. So long, "dad". FML
Today, I met my biological parents for the first time. Their justification for giving me up for adoption was that I wasn't conceived at the ideal time for them. Apparently, the ideal time was six months after the adoption, when they conceived the first of my two brothers. FML
Today, I met my biological mother for the first time. She stole my wallet. FML
Today, I met my paternal grandparents for the first time, since my dad was never in my life and my mom wouldn’t talk about him. According to them, I have at least 28 other siblings from him, and who knows how many that haven’t come forward. No wonder my mom always hated him. FML
Today, I'm 36 years-old, living with my parents, in debt. My mom always wants to solve my problems by giving me money, which she later claims as "borrowed", so now I'm highly in debt with the bank… and her. FML
Today, I tried to confront my parents with the fact that they're almost certainly going to outlive me unless I radically change my lifestyle, and that I needed their assistance to help me stay on track. I only realized after my impassioned speech that they were ignoring me the whole time. FML
Today, my mom told me that she had great news: we were going to meet my biological parents. I didn't know I was adopted. FML
Today, I found out that my parents are 28,000 dollars in debt and that my bank account has $27.17 in it. They took my money to help pay their debt. FML
Today, both my mom and dad agreed I basically ruined their life by existing. They weren’t even trying to be mean, they just casually mentioned that their lives were brilliant before me, then after I was born everything turned to shit and they’ve been miserable ever since. FML
Today, after going to my friend's house for the first time and seeing how their parents treat them, I realized that I’ve never once experienced parental love in my entire life. FML
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MELKOZAR 27
They owe you 29 years.
Roythetickler 21
Forget them you have your adopted parents
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Comments (162)
Gityerchicken 12
Thank your lucky stars you weren't brought up by those pathetic losers. I'm so glad people adopt!
SamBeast 18
ouch, sorry you felt with that but life only gets better
msmedieval 11
I'm sorry OP, I can't imagine hiw that must've felt like. At least you're an adult now, you have your own life & have the freedom to choose who to include / exclude from it. You don't owe them anything, you only owe yourself a happy fulfilling life & peace of mind.
momac86 17
At least the one decent thing they ever did in life was give you to a real family
Narianos 9
It's good that you stood up for yourself like that. You've definitely gotten better than what they could have given you. And use those similar looks as a way to show you're far better than your biological dad.
MorkaneBloodrage 16
My dad and uncle are both adopted. My uncle got to meet his birth parents and it was almost as bad as yours was. He came back saying my Grandparents (the ones who raised him) were his parents not them. Because of that my dad doesn't even wanna look for his. At least you got closure. Something a lot of adopted children don't get. I wish you all the best OP and as the Irish say "May the road rise up to meet you, and the always be at your back."
randomperson2177 5
if thats all they had to say then they are not your parents forget about them
kirasant 19
Blood doesn't equal family; these are just people you share some genetic material with. Don't let them get you down. Your answer to them was spot on.
CrystalClearly 8
Too many parents raise children they do not love or cannot care for properly. Perhaps your birth parents recognized this in themselves so many years ago. Luckily the mystery of your origin has been solved. I hope you were raised by loving, caring parents.
wyle_e2003 2
Wow. They made one good decision, and that was to let you be raised by people capable of providing you with a good life. Thank them for that and get those toxic people out of your life.