Her Biological Niece Was Put Up For Adoption As A Baby And Recently Reached Out, But She Quickly Shut Her Niece Down And Got Accused Of Being “Messed Up”
A long time ago, this woman’s sister had a daughter. However, her sister surrendered her niece when she was just a baby.
But, more recently, her niece has entered her life again after reaching out and trying to initiate a relationship.
Apparently, her niece just wanted to get to know her and was also hoping that she could get her niece in touch with her sister as well as some other family members.
When she spoke to her sister about this, though, her sister claimed to not want any contact.
“And I wasn’t interested, either,” she admitted.
So, she wound up texting her niece a very straightforward message that was not taken the best way.
“My sister has asked me not to share any contact information. I’m also not interested in any further contact. However, I thought you should know that there is a history of heart disease in our family,” she texted her niece.
Now, she thought that being short, concise, and getting to the point would be the best strategy– essentially like tearing off a bandaid.
But her niece didn’t appreciate how cold her text sounded and wound up going off on her.
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In fact, she received a long text accusing her of being messed up for just rejecting her niece before claiming that she could have heart disease.
Still, she claimed that she really thought she had done the right thing.
“I’ve always heard that it is important to tell people who were adopted or in foster care about their family’s medical history,” she vented.
Anyway, she realizes that she will likely never talk to or run into her niece again.
Nonetheless, ever since their negative text conversation, she’s been left wondering whether how she broke the news that she wasn’t interested in getting to know her niece really did make her a jerk.
Does she have a right to not want a relationship with her niece? Even so, how would you feel if you went looking for your biological family and received such a cold response? Could she have been nicer? Or is it better that she didn’t lead her niece on?
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