My Wife Waited Years to Become a Mother – but Just Four Weeks After the Adoption, I Came Home and Found Her Crying: ‘We’re Not Parents Anymore!’

Melissa didn’t cry.

Instead, she said she wasn’t ready to be a mom.

She explained that her home life was chaotic and that her own mom told her to figure it out alone.

The poor teenage girl just wanted her baby to have a chance. A stable and safe family. A real one.

We signed the adoption paperwork a week later.

So did Melissa.

The agency made it feel like a checklist — legal names, background checks, parenting classes, baby CPR. We ticked every box, and suddenly, we were parents!

We named her Rhea.

She was tiny, with a tuft of dark hair and a cry that could shatter glass. Megan held her like she’d been waiting her whole life for that moment!

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