Long Lost Family...

[Bbbananas]

New series starting now.
I don't like forced mush, but I have never yet not cried at this programme.

[pusskin]

i cry buckets salla.

[vodkancoke]

I'm recording it. I always cry at it :(

[pusskin]

I hope no one rings while this is on --cant talk now. sob sob.

[Bbbananas]

That's it - I'm off...
"Hello Dad" after 54 years. Wow.

Great programme.

[pusskin]

Isnt it all fantastic salla. My son found me after 39 yrs!

Best day of our lives (2004)

[vodkancoke]

Aww pusskin. :)

[Bbbananas]

Pusskin, what a wonderful thing for you both x

[Bbbananas]

To have to give a baby away like that, when you don't want to but have no other choice, must be heartbreaking. I feel for all those mothers and the attitudes and stigma they faced.

[pusskin]

No one knows how many tears are shed untill you all meet up again.

My two sons think the world of each other, and keep in touch.
The day we all met up was the happiest i have felt in 39 yrs.
Life is wonderfull apart from some of the guilty feelings that i still go through.

[Ann]

Ah pusskin, that is a lovely story with a happy ending.

Love this series but often wonder just how many they find after much research, who don't want to meet up. That must be really heartbreaking for one side of the family ....

[ummmm]

We both cried.

[craft1948]

Okay................I blubbed.

[pusskin]

Ann, for some people that must very difficult and heartbreaking if you want to, and it works out wrong.
My sister-in laws friend, got in touch with her birth mother and arranged to meet , and she was turned away because she had changed her mind.
She didnt get over the doorstep after travelling all the way to Cornwall.
Very sad indeed.

[chrissa1]

This always makes me cry. My late husband was in the same situation as the chap whose parents were living in NZ. Sadly, his father didn't want anything to do with my husband, and his mother who was so under her husband's thumb, that she cut off all contact with us after 6 months.

My in-laws were not the best of parents and so he always felt that he's been abandoned twice. Once at 6 months old and again when he was 40.

It caused him a great deal of grief and was a factor in his death from an alcohol related disease. They never even sent their condolences when he died.

[pusskin]

Chrissa. See what i mean about the sad stories that you dont get to hear about. Some outcomes can be soul destroying, and I dont doubt for one minute that you can get over these things.

[chrissa1]

You're right pusskin. He never did get over it. That's what makes me cry.

[pusskin]

Ah, chrissa, no wonder you still cry!
Its a horrible thing to happen to some one who has found, and lost a piece of their life. wanna give you a big hug! x

[mactee]

i found my partners long lost family myself. i wrote to the local papers saying that we were trying to put together a family tree and would they join in and add their names etc., we realised one set of names was the right ones and to cut a long story short we met them and although her mother had died, and father unknown...her mother had a sister and we found a huge family who were amazed and thrilled at the discovery of an unwanted baby there knew nothing about. the family resemblance is plain to see and the clues matched the jigsaw so there was never a doubt in anyones mind she was really their long lost niece. the series is amazing and there are many wonderful outcomes such as our story. we are always in tears watching it because the emotions are all still there....brilliant programme.

[chrissa1]

Bless you, pusskin.

[pusskin]

have only just this minute come back to this thread.
My eyes have just filled with tears reading your posts.
Roll on the next programme, its the only time i get to have a good ole grizzle.
Thanks for posting salla. x