Quote From: dolly1I was adopted at the age of five by distant relatives following the deaths of my parents. The woman who adopted me was a viscious, controlling bully who couldn't stand my birth father. All I heard from her growing up was that I was a useless no-good bum just like my father. She was also physically abusive, and I would be hit with a yard stick for something like my bed had wrinkles in it. I am in my 50s now and have been estranged from her for years. She doesn't understand why I don't want to have anything to do with her. I feel resentful that I was placed in her home -- there are lots more issues -- and that she made my childhood and adolescence a living hell. Of course I grew up with self esteem issues, married men who used me, became an alcoholic and all the rest of it. I feel the damage she did lasted a life time and the worst part of it is I shouldn't have been in her home in the first place. I was baptized a Catholic and she's a Baptist. It breaks my heart when I think of the child I was living with all that fear, pain and distress.
I understand how u feel, I was adopted when I was 6 and was psyicialy abused and emotionaly abused by both aparent. I was molested by a female cousen and by my babysitter. The pain that it causes is real, not only do we have to deal with just being adopted we have to deal with the abuse too. I want you to know you are not alone, there are alot of us abused adoptees out there, you are in my thoughts...
lori
