Abby Connolly
Erin has tried her best to stand up for him and defend his adoptive family, but her parents won’t drop the topic. Finally, when her parents brought up his family, and how “tragic” it was that he wasn’t with his biological parents at a dinner with their friends, he had to speak up.
He went on a long rant about how the people he actually shared DNA with were the people who made him feel awful and unloved.
“I told them I could not imagine having any of those people in my life today, and I could not imagine thinking DNA means more than love,” he added.
“I told them I was miserable being with those people, and I wished every day for someone to love me. [I said] I didn’t know love until I was seven and I met my parents, more specifically my dad, who embodies love and is hands down the most loving, caring, compassionate, and thoughtful person I have ever met.”
He also told Erin’s parents about how when his dads adopted him, he didn’t know how to eat and sleep normally due to the trauma his biological parents caused him, further emphasizing how it was not tragic that they wouldn’t be at his wedding.
After he finished ranting, Erin’s parents went silent for the rest of the dinner, and later, they said he had humiliated them and shouldn’t have spoken to them like that. Erin stood up for him, telling them they should know when to quit bugging him and owe him an apology.
Should he apologize for going off on his future in-laws?
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