Long lost Family: What happened next

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Really interested to see how things panned out.

So lovely to see the twins relationship.

The sisters finding out that there mother wasn't a very nice person was interesting, especially when Laura still said, despite that, she still wished she wasn't adopted.

Like LLF but this is far more interesting I am a very nosy person though

Yes I love it as well, am glad they are doing this follow up programme as often wonder how things work out.

Can't imagine how complicated things must get to meet a now middle aged man/woman that you last saw as a tiny baby. Thought it was really sad that things hadn't gone to plan for the mum whose son was in New Zealand.

Agree re finding out that the mum wasn't a good person, seems strange that despite knowing she had abandoned both daughters that they still were desperate to believe she was a good person.

I missed the beginning that explained the twins back story, what happened? Did one get adopted out and one was kept in the family?

Yes the one kept in the family thought her birth mother was her aunt. She discovered the truth quite early on and knew she had a twin.

With the sisters and the mother and son it still left more unanswered, wonder why Laura still wished she had been adopted and what did Ppen to sour the mother and son relationship I want to know

It was interesting to see that both stories of the siblings reunions worked out well, but that the mother/son reunion didn't.

I wondered if, because the mother/son reunion happened over Christmas that there was too much expectation, on both sides, to make it a 'perfect Christmas' and they lost the chance to 'explore' their emotions about the adoption? I don't know - maybe I'm overthinking it.

Or maybe, not overthinking it - but looking at it from the wrong angle?

I felt bad for Lauras adoptive family when she said that - that must have stung. Although to be fair it sounded like they had not handled the adoption issue terribly well for her to feel like it was a 'dirty secret' in the family.

Interestingly I tend to notice that the families that are very open and accepting about the adoption tend to have children that are more at peace with it.

I wondered what happened re the mother/ son, felt sad they weren't speaking. Am guessing some hurtful things must have been said but can't imagine what I think the mother carried a huge amount of guilt over giving him up and probably needed some proper counselling/ therapy to start to deal with the emotional reality of losing a baby and finding a man.

It was an interesting programme. Loved the twin story.

Sad about the mother/son. I wonder what was said. Maybe the mum was expecting too much or wanted too much (or the son). I agree that Christmas puts too much pressure on the situation.

I also thought that it must have been hurtful for the adoptive parents to hear that she would rather not have been adopted.

When was this on? Sounds interesting.

I think it was on Tuesday at either 8 or 9pm!

In the mother/son one the mother had some tattoos on her hand which the son said he didn't like. Also he said he had never wondered about his birth mother so it seems she was more anxious to get to know him than vice versa.

She didn't seem to have had any other children. I wonder if there was some resentment/criticism of the adoptive mother and how he was brought up? The birth mother came across as if she could be a bit needy and controlling to me. Very sad all the same.

IIRC, in the mother/son scenario - she had subsequently married and had more children (?)

That was a lovely outcome, three happy women.

Ooh. I wonder what happens next......

Oh, I am crying again!!!!

I missed the beginning of this: why was that poor lady's little brother adopted out aged four? How traumatic