Long lost family

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Anyone else watching? I'm in bits, the pain these people have carried around for years is heartbreaking.

Crying my eyes out! My friend was adopted and knows her birth name and the area her biological mum lived in but has never wanted to take it any further. Her adoptive parents have sadly both passed away but she had such a wonderful life with them she feels like she doesn't need to know anything about where she came from.

@Mumthedogsbeensick is she not even a little curious about her biological mum and why she gave her up? I imagine the not knowing must be so hard.

I've just got through half a box of tissues watching that!

I think I slightly fancy the French man he had lovely eyes! My friend said she has never felt the need. She has an older brother who was adopted from another mum and he feels exactly the same. Her adoptive parents were told they couldn't have children and a couple of years after adopting my friend they fell pregnant with her younger brother! I think I would be too curious and would want to find out.

I watched it and cried my eyes out.

The French dad was bit of a dish

I didn't see the programme from the beginning, why did the older lady had to give up her son up for adoption? Was it because she was an unmarried mother?

I was born in 1972 and my young mum was 4 months pregnant when they got married. Only it all to fall apart one year later. But at the time social stigma and pressure to be married was huge. Since having my own DC, I have often thought about the trauma so many unmarried pregnant young girls and women had to go through. Just awful to think having to live with that loss all your life.

I missed the start too so I don't know what happened to the father, but she did say she didn't have any support from her family to keep the baby even though she wanted to.

I've just spent the last 10 minutes looking at photos of my 2 toddlers on my phone (who are thankfully soundly sleeping for now), and although they regularly drive me crazy, it would be so unbearable to have to be apart from them for whatever reason, I wouldn't be as strong as the people in the programme.

I'm an emotional wreck and not sure I'll be able to watch it ever again!

Just watched the episode with the (good looking) French father.

The mother got pregnant whilst dating. When she told him, he said he didn’t want the baby, and had also been dating someone else for six months. Also, she came from a strong Catholic family, so she knew she couldn’t keep him. It was quite sad because she married soon afterwards, and had a second boy one year after, who was stillborn.