Tears watching a tv programme ........

I too love the programme and I too cry but I do wish they d mix the commentary up a bit, I know exactly when and how Davina will smile, what angle her head will be , what she will say and how she ll say it. Not quite so much with Nick ….
andthere’s rarely a bad ending, not saying never but rarely, my first boyfriend was adopted and managed to find who his birth mum was, he asked me if I d go with him on the train 50 miles away to meet her and of course I did She wasn’t a nice person at all told him she was prostitute and his birth had more or less been an inconvenience He kept a limited contact up for a little while then let it all go but that was a double rejection
I do like 24 hours in Aand E as that’s not predictable at all and people do die it’s not all happy endings not so stage managed

Can't stand the programme. I cannot for the life of me understand how you can fall into the arms of a complete stranger and say that now your life is complete.
Nonogran is right when she says that it's not all happy ever after, sometimes there is havoc wreaked within families.

I think it's when your life is an unfinished jigsaw you look for the missing pieces and when you find them the jigsaw is complete how it goes from there no one can tell but completing it can be very important to most people.

granyactivist
The same story as a young friend of mine. Her birth parents were divorced but her father welcomed her when she contacted him. But her mother refused any contact.

There was one that really stuck in my mind from a much earlier series. A young woman had had to give up her baby after looking after her for almost a year. Her family was in a very dire situation, living in just a couple of rooms and with younger children and a sick mother. To have to give up a child after this length of time must have been especially heartbreaking but done with love because the home situation was so dreadful.

I have always watched this programme and find some of the stories so heart rending. However the cynic in me cannot believe that there are always happy endings and these are rarely shown. Imagine meeting up with a long lost parent or an unknown sibling and you could not stand them (or they you)! I do hope there are counselling and advice services available for the participants whose dreams are destroyed.

I remember reading about an actress, who was in a long running tv show, and had been contacted by her daughter, who she had had adopted. She wanted nothing to do with her I disliked her intensely after that.

Who knows what the story was behind that adoption DanniRae it's not for us to judge. Programmes like Long Lost Family give a very skewed view of adoption, its not all happiness and joy to meet with birth families.