A month after I had adopted a child who was four years old, she approached me and said, “Mommy, you shouldn’t put your faith in Daddy.”
A month had passed since we had formally moved into our new role as a family of three.
Bringing young Ioana home was a process that took Mihai and I several months of planning, paperwork, and visits to her home.
Although she was reserved, she possessed a spark that we anticipated would soon become more prominent. I was prepared to shower her with all the love that she deserved because I was her mother.
This made Mihai very happy. After years of suffering through the pain of trying to have a family, we finally met Ioana through adoption, which felt like a gift from fate. However, after only a few weeks of our new life together, I became aware of something that was disconcerting.
