My Birth Family Contacted Me After 31 Years with an Outrageous Request — Am I Wrong for How I Reacted?

A man, adopted as a baby after being abandoned in an alley, lives a happy life with his loving adoptive parents. As he and his fiancée, Vivianne, talk about starting a family, he becomes concerned about his medical history, unsure of any hereditary conditions that could affect their future children. After much consideration, he takes a 23andMe DNA test, hoping to learn more. However, he accidentally makes his information available to any potential relatives, which leads to unexpected messages from his biological family,

His birth siblings, including a sister named Angela and a brother named Chris, reach out, claiming they’ve been searching for him for years. Initially, the man is uninterested and rejects their contact, wanting nothing to do with them. However, the messages continue, growing more insistent and guilt-laden. They insist that their parents, who had five children before him, regretted giving him up and wanted to reconnect.

Despite his fiancée’s advice to ignore them, the messages continue until Angela contacts him, saying their mother is seriously ill and needs a liver transplant. This pushes him to meet the family in person to stop the harassment. When they finally meet, he’s confronted by his birth mother, who is frail and pleading for help. However, none of her other children are willing to undergo tests to see if they’re a match, leaving the man as the last hope,

The man is appalled by their selfishness and refuses to help. He tells them that they abandoned him and have shown no care for their mother’s well-being. He walks away from the meeting, determined to sever all ties with them. He later tells Vivianne that, despite the pity he feels for his birth mother, his real family is the one that raised him. He deletes his 23andMe profile, changes his contact information, and makes it clear to his birth family that he wants no further involvement.

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