In my eyes
29.03.2023
I like to recommend foster and adoptive parents to also talk well about their child's first parents. By this ...
03.02.2023
I talked with my aunt yesterday. She told me that she was there once when my first mother, my siblings and my grandma picked me up for a walk.
19.01.2023
She is a lovely lady that I have known and respected for years. A few years ago she advised her childless daughter to adopt a child. And now she contacted me because of my book on adoption.
30.12.2022
Yesterday I spoke with Petra Welkers, 57. She is the author of the book „Geburtsgeheimnis. Adoption im Spiegel von Geschichte und Therapie“, a mixture of autobiography, non-fiction and fairy tales.
14.12.2022
I've always been annoyed by the phrase "to adopt a dog". I found this expression to belittle the adopted child's pain. Since last Saturday, I see things differently.
03.12.2022
Apples on a tree that wasn't mine! Am I allowed to pick them? Without paying anything? Without giving anything in return? Without having done anything for it beforehand?
14.11.2022
Ich kann sie gut verstehen. Ich habe selbst beim Radio gearbeitet und weiß, wie schwer es sein kann, Interviewpartner zu bekommen.
09.11.2022
He, in his mid-20s, sat across from me on the train. In his hand a book about psychotherapy and trauma.
27.01.2022
I was 6 or 7 years old the last time I saw my father. He’s been dead for a long time. Did he bless me?
24.01.2022
Perhaps you know the story of Jacob and Esau, which should be called ”the story of Esau and Jacob“, for Esau was the firstborn. But Jacob
23.09.2021
"You have to be in peace with it at some point.“ Or: “You have to look ahead." Or: “You should reconcile yourself with it.“ Or
20.07.2021
It is not always easy, the relationship between first parents and foster- or adoptive parents.
15.07.2021
She was the resolute grandma par excellence, told me her granddaughter, now a competent woman herself.
08.07.2021
No one has ever looked at me like that. Not before and not after. It wasn’t a gaze of love, no, but one thing at a time.
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22.11.2022
There are a lot of taboos on our subject and a lot of soft talk. But what do a first mother and an adoptive mother really think of each other?
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How can that be? "Marilyn Monroe" and "feelings of inferiority" - how does that fit together? Not really, right?
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Apples on a tree that wasn't mine! Am I allowed to pick them? Without paying anything? Without giving anything in return? Without having done anything for it beforehand?