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!’

I set my keys down and called for Megan. She didn’t answer. I found her on the couch, staring blankly at the TV screen, her eyes red and puffy.

“Babe?” I said.

She didn’t look up.

“What’s wrong?

Where’s Rhea?”

Then she turned her face toward me, eyes red, and my stomach dropped.

“We’re not parents anymore!” she shouted.

It took me a moment to process the words. “What do you mean?”

“Check my email,” she said quietly, her voice hollow after she wiped her face and took a breath. “The agency sent something.

Just… look.”

Her laptop was still open on the kitchen table. I walked over, my hands already clammy, and clicked on the most recent message.

It was a formal, cold email from the adoption agency explaining that under state law, a birth mother has a 30-day window to revoke her consent!

Melissa had contacted them earlier that afternoon.

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