A Man Pushed to Adopt a Little Girl, Then Grew Distant Toward His Wife. A Week Later, He Broke Down and Said, “I Should Have Told You Years Ago”

Then our agency called about Lily.

We waited years. We attended adoption classes, completed evaluations, and prepared a bedroom with yellow curtains that stayed empty far longer than we’d hoped.

Sometimes I’d pause outside that room, trying not to imagine a child asleep beneath the curtains. Mark would squeeze my shoulder and say, “Maybe next year.”

Then our agency called about Lily.

She was four, shy, and obsessed with dinosaurs. After more than a year in foster care, both her birth parents’ rights had been terminated.