PeachesPeachesPeachesPeachesPeaches ·
01/03/2025 20:11
Name changed in case SIL is on here 😂
My DS is 8. He’s adopted and has SEN. I adopted him with my exhusband - I left him five years ago, and three years ago he stopped having contact with DS after he assaulted DS. Have never heard from any of exes family since - so DS lost his dad, brother, grandma, aunt, uncle and cousins. He hated his dad because he assaulted him but he really struggled with all the loss.
Met my DP about six months after I left my ex and slowly him and DS got to know each other. Not long after contact stopped, DS started calling my DP dad. We corrected him but he persisted. Eventually my DP admitted that it broke his heart to keep correcting him because he “felt like his dad”.
Tonight my DS is having a sleepover at DP’s sisters. She wanted to have him over. It’s his first ever sleepover that isn’t at my mum’s. She’s just sent me a photo of him, her and her husband curled up on the sofa and said that he’d been upstairs on his switch and she asked if he wanted to come downstairs and he said “yes I want to be with family”.
😭😭😭
He had “family” that abandoned him. And it’s their loss because he really is incredible.
But I’d taken for granted that he also has so much family who have chosen him. SIL, BIL and PILs have welcomed him into the family with open arms and he is so comfortable around them, he knows they are his family.
And this has melted my stone cold little heart on the Saturday evening so I’m sat on the sofa sobbing that one little boy can be so very loved.