“What are you talking about, Claire? It was your idea to adopt in the first place, and you wanted to do it. I responded, “That little girl calls us mom and dad,”
As her words pierced my heart. Claire broke down in tears. She said that she didn’t believe she was a suitable mother to Sophie.
I told her she was amazing, the best mother a youngster could ask for. She finally opened up and said that her mother was the one who had sowed the seeds of her uncertainty.
Her mother said that we should have made a more concerted effort to adopt a newborn, or at the at least, an infant, and that we hurried to adopt a 4-year-old.
According to her, older kids have problems. For example, Sophie once had a tantrum in the grocery store, but it was simply normal behavior for a 4-year-old.
