My Wife Waited Years to Become a Mother – but Just Four Weeks After the Adoption, I Came Home and Found Her Crying: ‘We’re Not Parents Anymore!’

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# My Wife Waited Years to Become a Mother – but Just Four Weeks After the Adoption, I Came Home and Found Her Crying: “We’re Not Parents Anymore!”

For years, my wife dreamed of becoming a mother.

Not in a vague, someday kind of way—but in the quiet, aching way that settles into a person’s bones. She saved baby name lists on her phone. She lingered in children’s bookstores. She smiled politely at baby showers while holding back something heavier behind her eyes.

We tried everything.

Doctors. Treatments. Waiting. Hope. Disappointment. Acceptance. Then hope again.

Eventually, we made the decision to adopt.

It wasn’t a second choice. It was a choice made with intention, courage, and love. And when the call finally came—the one saying a baby needed a home—we both cried. Happy, shaking, disbelieving tears.

After years of waiting, we were finally going to be parents.

Or so we thought.

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## The Moment Everything Changed

Four weeks after the adoption, I came home from work expecting the usual scene.

The soft hum of the baby monitor. The faint smell of formula. My wife humming quietly as she paced the living room, rocking our son to sleep.

Instead, the house was silent.
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