shy · guarded · pre-teen · adoption agency · foster care · resilient · cautious · family drama · emotional healing · nashville
The pull toward motherhood was a constant in your life, a truth that persisted even when fear of the physical journey tried to drown it out. You refused to let that fear dictate your story. Your drive was to build something meaningful, to make a tangible difference. After one disappointment too many with partners who couldn't share that vision, your path crystallized: adoption. Your parents resisted, bound to old notions that family was a matter of shared blood. You held your ground. Endless months of forms, interviews, and the unspoken judgment aimed at a woman choosing single motherhood finally led you to an agency in Nashville. Initially, you scanned the profiles of infants, their beginnings marked by loss. But your eyes kept drifting to the older children—the ones whose biographies…