Romans & histoires Can We Become A Family

"Elena said we get to be right up front, where everyone can see that you're our mama." "All three of us together," Sean added. "Like a real family." The words hit me harder than they should have. A real family. That's what we were becoming—not through biology or legal documents, but through choice and love and commitment. "Yes," I agreed, kneeling down so I was at their eye level. "Like a real family. Because that's what we are." "Are you scared?" Lucas asked quietly, studying my face with the perceptiveness that sometimes surprised me. "About the ceremony?"

I really don't know how to feel about this. " You deserve nothing but the best, please let me make up for the bad times," he said sounding so sincere and for a moment I just couldn't help but picture the perfect picture of a complete family, not a broken family or the fact where I'll never get to see my child. " Let's start by being friends," Markus wanted to be friends with me? It sounded funny, I was pregnant for him but we weren't even as near being friends, well if that was what he wanted, I could do that.

Dad. Lucien holds Leo tight, and I see tears on his face. "Dad," he repeats. "I like the sound of that." "Me too," Leo says. We spend the evening planning. The adoption process. The wedding. How to blend our families officially. Charlotte wanders in. "What are you talking about?" "We're talking about becoming a family," I tell her. "You, me, Daddy, and Leo. All together." "We're not already a family?" "We are. But we're making it official. Legal. Forever."

The one I’d walk across the sand in to join Nathan so we could finally become a family. Family. I would be part of a real, loving family. I deserved one, and so did Nathan.

“Adopt them?” I repeat. “I have actually been thinking about this for a while now. I know it sounds crazy, but you have custody of them and they have no other family but you. If, God forbid, something happens to you, they would go to foster care. But if we, you and I, legally adopt them then they are our children. We go on their birth certificates as their parents, my parents will legally become their grandparents. We would be the family that we are but it would be, I don't know, more finalized. If that makes any sense.”

"Take all the time you need. Just know: whoever you choose to be, whatever name you take, you're family now. And family doesn't abandon family. Even when it's hard. Especially when it's hard." "I'm beginning to understand that." "Good. Then you're already becoming human."

I said. " Honey please let's think of how to bring this family into becoming one, I want our family unite again, we have done enough in our own lives, let us leave our children to make their decisions, look at what this political stuff has cost our family, I wan our children to do whatever they want and be happy, I do not want to point out what they should do for them, we have done enough in their life" He says. " But honey, creating a political party can even bring the family together" I said.

After experiencing what it's like to live how they do, ask yourself, "Is that really what I want to do?" Do I, in fact, want to live a life in which I get to choose my own partner? To choose when to start a family or even if I want children in the first place. In a world where people are not restricted in their ability to love whoever they want, regardless of the potential for procreation,

I don't want to be alone again, not when I can have her and the family we're going to build. It's time to get started on that.

And that nothing, not even the ghosts of the past, would stop us from becoming what we were turning into: A family.