[David]

From a recent experience, I bet your half siblings are more happy to hear from you than your birth mother.

Last year my mother and I both took the Ancestry DNA test. Just before Christmas we both received Facebook messages from a girl who had been adopted and Ancestry said we were cousins and she was looking for her birth mother. The only relative I knew who had put a child up for adoption was a cousin of mine and I was staying with her parents over the holidays. I mentioned it to them at the beginning of our visit and they didn't really respond which seemed strange so I let it go for a few days. At the end of our trip, I said we should discuss this and then I realized my aunt hadn't understood what I said a few days earlier.

My aunt said her daughter had been looking for her child so she immediately called her daughter. The next day my cousin contacted the girl and it was in fact her daughter. I could sense this was a little difficult for both of them. My cousin's other daughter also called her new found half-sister (both in their 20's) and they hit it off immediately. They talked on the phone for 4 hours the first day. So it seems it was easier for the sisters to bond immediately than it was for the mother and daughter.


My only sibling is a half brother who I met briefly as a small child and then didn't meet again until our 20's. Even though we didn't grow up together, we had so much in common it was creepy.