Family Ties
In the first days of finding out I was donor conceived I felt strongly that I didn't want to know or have a relationship with my biological father and half siblings. I already had a wonderful father and 2 wonderful sisters. I felt a lack of interest in knowing these other DNA relatives and a betrayal to my family if I did look for any of them. However as those first early days turned in to a week, then two weeks I felt a nagging feeling to know who these people were. What did they look like? Did we have things in common? I ended up messaging all of the half siblings on Facebook. Four of them wrote me back and we had small, somewhat awkward, conversations. There was an immediate spark of interest and I craved to know them better and to keep the conversation going. By the end of January when I discovered who our sperm donor was I put all five of us in a group chat and dropped the bomb shell on who he was. That traumatic revelation ...