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Opening Up to Open Adoption (With Unintended Help from Hollywood)
[Ed. note--I am pleased to welcome new contributor Ethan Brooks-Livingston to the OAB team! He will be exploring openness from the perspective of a prospective adoptive parent in his monthly column,...
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Can I Trust You? Will You Trust Me? : Moving Beyond Pre-Adoptive Parent Fears
From the beginning, when my wife and I made the decision to pursue an open adoption, the issue of trust has been constantly on our minds. We came to adoption after a couple of years struggling with...
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In the Moment: A Pre-Adoptive Dad’s Thoughts on Gratitude
Thanksgiving has made November the month for blogging about gratitude. In the weeks leading up to today, I’ve seen quite a few blog projects and posts about what people are grateful for–some of them...
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An Opportune Moment: Working on Mindfulness During the Great Wait
It’s no big secret among those who know me best that I have a hard time with things that are out of my control. I’m not great with the great unknown that is this weird space in between all the...
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When the Days Feel Darkest: Waiting, and Wrestling with Fear
For some reason, our road to become parents through open adoption has turned me, some days, into a bottomless pit of need for encouragement. Generally speaking, I am not a needy person. I usually have...
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Just Add Baby…Someday: Nesting During the Wait
Now that we’re five months into our “official” wait, we’ve settled into the reality that those fantastic stories of super-quick adoptions – the “we just got our home study approval three days ago,...
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