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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My children are good kids but boring, no juicy secrets. Unless you count my 12 year old daughter who would be mortified if her friends new she still plays with dolls, ponies, plays "house" etc. I did those things until I was a sophomore in HS, so I don't see it as a big deal. Anyhoo...

I have a childhood friend that is keeping a secret about her two children that is going to backfire spectacularly one day. They are adopted and they do not know and she intends to keep it that way. Only myself,(& my DH), her DH and her cousin know. She pretended to be pregnant both times. She is considering adopting another.

She had to tell me because she came to our reunion, not pregnant, saw her four days later in her now hometown (about 2 hours away) and she was magically in her third trimester. She said she is protecting her children by doing this. Myself, I'm staying out of it and wish I didn't know.[/quote]
For real?  This sounds like the plot for some really bad lifetime movie.[/quote]

I agree. And that is truly terrible.[/quote]

Adoptee here... This is not in ANYONE's best interest!  There ought to be some kind of screen for this, like how do potential adoptive parents "feel" about adoption?  Although I suppose itould be easy enough to lie.
I knew another adoptee who KNEW she was adopted, but it was a big secret, like it was shameful or sonething.  Her parents encouraged her not to discuss it.
As an interracial adoptee, I suppose that was never an option for me, but... Geez.  I never thought I was LESS THAN other kids or anything.
DH grew up with soneone who found out they were adopted as an infant, when thry were 13, bc just being 13 isn't already hard enough.  They wound up committing suicide over it.
And pretending to be pregnant is just messed up.  Your friend needs therapy, not another baby.

Yep, all real. I'm sure there is some type of disorder behind it. Worse part is now that I'm "in on it" she talks to me about it all the time. She truly feels this is best for her children. [/quote][/quote]

no one bothered to tell us one of our cousins whom we were very close to was adopted until I was 11 - he told me and I told him he was lying..............  OTOH another cousin was a preemie and got to eat sugar all the time or whatever he wanted "because he was a preemie."  Cannot think what my family was thinking not telling the rest of us kids earlier[/quote]

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