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Tuppies TeddiesNot sure if this is the right spot for this, but I just have to share it with you.
My husbands mother died in November 07 and a week before she died she told my hubby that he was a chosen child, that he was adopted.
At 60 and hearing this from his Mum who was on her death bed just blew him away.
Not wanting to upset her with too many questions at the time, we have spent the last month looking for his Mum.
We have had so many emotional ups and downs but as of last night it will be all up from here.
We found his Mum, but unfortuately she passed away in 1967, he found where she was laid to rest and that was a very emotional time.
He has now found his cousins and he also has found out he has a half brother. He spent last night in Melb. at one of his relatives homes and is on top of the world.
He has even managed to get a photo of his Mum.
We have only heard of this sort of thing happening to others, he thought he was an only child and now he has so many relations that he is yet to meet, the next family reunion of this family is going to be so exciting.
Waggle BearsEven being stunned, he sounds like it handled it well and looks like he has a whole new family. It's so gratifying when you hear these kind of things where both families want to come together. I wish him much happiness getting to know his new family. I bet you're excited, too.
Wow, that is amazing.. I guess that was good of his Mom to tell him that he was adopted.. so even though he doesn't have her anymore, well at least he can find other family. Did they say how his birth mom died? That is so very interesting. How very excited your Hubby must be to have so many more people in his life... I can imagine how hard it must be though! :hug:
Hugs!
Melanie
Tuppies TeddiesIt was very hard, anger crept in as to him being told so late in life...but we have to remember his birth Mum had her reasons for giving him up and his adoptive Mum was unable to have children of her own so she was happy to get him...
His birth Mum had a brain tumour and died at the age of 47...
And most of all, if his life had not panned out as it did, we would not be together, we wouldn't have our beautiful children or our 7 grandchildren..
Life is just amazing...
DoodlebearsThat's an amazing thing for your husband to have to cope with. I dare say the mum he knew all his life was maybe frightened of loosing him if she told him earlier. What a brave lady to share her secret in he last while with her son. Now your husband can enjoy his newly found family and I'm sure he will understand why his mum kept her secret for so long. How wonderful that a whole new chapter in his life has just opened! I'm sorry for your husbands loss, but excited for him to now he has his new family to get to know. 
Hugs, Jane. 
Newcastle, OntarioHi Denise,
What an amazing story! It must have been extremely hard on your husband to hear this information, at an already stressful time. I'm glad he has found his birth family, or he may have ended up feeling very bitter and abandoned. It's wonderful that they want a relationship with him. You must have worked very hard to find them. Well done, both of you!
hugs,
Brenda
Tuppies TeddiesThe internet was a great help in this search....there was an organization in Melb. who specialize in these sort of searches, we even paid them a fee but when Leith showed them all the information WE had collected they gave him a refund. The staff member even asked him if he wanted a job with them...
The next search is for the half-brother...may be a little harder as he was only 10 or 12 when his mother died and so he could be living anywhere in Australia now...He would be approx 50 - 55 now. Maybe ads in newspapers over the country will be the next step..
We will do our best though to find him..
