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Birth Mother Matters in Adoption Episode 26: After An Adoption Match Fails
How do you move forward after an adoption match fails. Listen to an adoptive family first-hand how he and his wife moved forward. Learn how to look part the grief towards the rainbow at the end of your adoption journey, how to restore faith in your adoption choice and how to grieve and move on.
Accept grief for what it is, understand it may be part of your adoption journey and if it is learn what to do to get through this difficult time. Learn more about the adoption process and how families move forward and what happens after an adoption match fails. Believe you will end up adopting the baby you were meant to have.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the expert on grief said,“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
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“Grief never ends… But it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love.” – author unknown
Adoption is always the beginning, never the end. Adoption may not have been your dream, but understand adoption is the dream of another woman who may not be able to conceive.
Building Arizona Families Adoption Agency. www.buildingarizonafamilies.com