For those of you that waited more than a year for your match. how long did you wait? Did you start to avoid boards like these? I've found the longer we wait, the more it's easier just to not hear about how fast others matched. I want the support of other adopting families, but sometimes it's just easier to pretend we're not even waiting. Am I alone here?
Re: more than a year
A lot of people have told me that while it might seem like the paper work is the hard part its the biggest falsity (is that a word?) The wait is the hardest. I wish I had words of encouragement but I can only share with you a quote. "Sometimes you are delayed where you are because God knows there is a storm where you are headed." I've come to live by this, and at times cling to it, while keeping in mind their is a bigger picture and your perfect match will come along. Hugs
5 Angels
We started waiting in November of last year, as well, on my birthday of all days. Which was really cool. Until it was my birthday again, and still no baby. Our agency has 27 waiting couples and placed something like 15 babies in the last year, so we could still have a long wait ahead of us. This will be our first child, and while I know it will happen eventually...pfft. It just sucks. We've had 7 potential matching calls, and none of them has panned out. So we've been spent about 4 months of the past year actively waiting for a birthmom decision, and it's never been us.
It just gets exhausting, emotionally.