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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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patrickalamo 48
they are donors, not parents
150493x 29
Absolute cheek asking for money. They are the ones that should be making up for all those years, not you.
rocker_chick23 27
I hope you told them you only give money to your real parents. Just because they created you, doesn't mean they are your real parents. Your real parents are the ones who raised you and took care of you.
whoredom 21
I mean what did you expect. They gave you up for a reason. Some people just aren't meant to be parents. You should be content with the ones you have.
Kitten_love 22
Just because they gave you up, doesn't mean they are all deadbeats. My birth mother is a wonderful person with a husband and three daughters. I was given up because she was in college and unmarried when she had me and she wanted me to have a whole and complete family and life. I'm sorry they weren't what you expected OP. I met my biological father for the first time about a year ago and he wasn't what I expected either. Just remember you have a wonderful family that loves you and chose you!
Meanmommy02 11
Not all parents give their kids up. People like these idiots probably had them removed from their custody.
netflixislove 32
And this is probably why they didn't raise you
AcieMcG 21
This is why I'll be content living with my kidnappers lol
baristalbc 18
Sounds like you wound up the winner. They're still together?
hoosiergirl94 31
Parents are the people that raised you, not left you
yerawizardlizzy 27
Exhibit A in the case of why I've kept my adoption closed after 26 years and will continue to do so until they day I die. Not shaming your curiosity, but having seen some correspondence from my biological mother I already know I'm dodging a bullet. Sorry, OP.
tiggerdoc 14
And as an adopted child I have never heard a happy story from this.....it may take a month or so... But it goes south pretty quick
yerawizardlizzy 27
What are you talking about? No happy endings from closed adoptions? Who are you talking to?! I don't always get along with my adopted parents but I'm happier than I would have been with my birth mother.
Brandi_Faith 34
I think 41 meant no happy stories from the adoptive child meeting the birth parents? I can see why in a lot of cases the birth parents end up being a disappointment. I think the adoptive child has had so many years to think about their birth parents and what they do and who they are, that it gets blown up to unrealistic proportions. Once the child meets the birth parents they can't live up to those huge, perfect expectations. I think that's why sometimes the meeting with the birth parents doesn't go so well. And then of course there are situations like op's where the parents never grew up and matured. I'm glad they have you up op, it looks like things could've been pretty bad if they didn't. But I'm sorry for you and how disappointing they were. At least you hopefully have an awesome adoptive family!
Meanmommy02 11
Not all happy but I can tell you having my big brother did me a lot of good growing up even tho my parents are crap. It may not only be parents you find.
Brandi_Faith 34
Very true 127.
ChakatBlackstar 29
Sadly this is more common then the Hollywood version of finding your birth parents and finding out they really wanted to keep you but couldn't because of x (usually too young) and/or they regretted giving you away. Usually it turns out more like this where they were or still are losers or deadbeats who realized they were unfit to be parents, or the state determined they were unfit to be parents.