{"id":713,"date":"2025-02-26T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:05:59","slug":"my-birth-family-contacted-me-after-31-years-with-an-outrageous-request-am-i-wrong-for-how-i-reacted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"My Birth Family Contacted Me After 31 Years with an Outrageous Request \u2014 Am I Wrong for How I Reacted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started one Tuesday night when my fianc\u00e9e, Vivianne, and I were talking about having kids. I was excited but worried about my medical history since I was adopted and knew nothing about my biological family. To ease my mind, I ordered a 23&amp;Me kit. The results revealed unexpected messages from my birth siblings, Angela and Chris, claiming they were searching for me. Despite their attempts to reach out, I wasn&#8217;t interested and blocked them.<\/p>\n<p>However, they continued to harass me through emails, texts, and social media. One day, Angela messaged me saying my biological mother needed a liver transplant, and I was the only match. Reluctantly, I agreed to meet them, but when I arrived, their behavior confirmed my suspicions. They had no real interest in helping their mother. They refused to get tested, and I realized their motives were selfish.<\/p>\n<p>I confronted them, made it clear I wanted nothing to do with them, and walked out. Vivianne supported my decision, knowing I had a family who truly cared for me. Later, I deleted my 23&amp;Me profile, changed my number, and moved on with my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It all started one Tuesday night when my fianc\u00e9e, Vivianne, and I were talking about having kids. I was excited but worried about my medical <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=713\" title=\"My Birth Family Contacted Me After 31 Years with an Outrageous Request \u2014 Am I Wrong for How I Reacted?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}