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Now today's first story comes from Finpin from the Relationship Advice subreddit and says,

My wife and I want to adopt our teenage foster daughter, but father-in-law is furious about it.

And there is a trigger warning on this one of mentions of child sexual abuse. So as always,

if you want to skip the story, please feel free to do so. Time stamps are always down in the description and along the timeline below. Thank you. My wife and I have two biological teenage

sons, one older and one younger than our foster daughter. We've been fostering kids

for many years, but the goal has always been to reunify the kids with their parents, which has

happened successfully each time until now. Two years ago, we took in our foster daughter, now mid-teens.

She has been through a lot and was labeled as a troubled kid and not

adoptable. I won't go into details, but the issue in this matter is that there are images of her

going around amongst a certain community from before we took her in. We were informed by authorities

about all of this before, so it's not like this came as a surprise after we got to

know her. I'm not going to lie. It has not been easy. Our family has seen a struggle, but

almost everyone has been super supportive. The first five to six months were the hardest.

She didn't trust us and she was angry at the world. Rightfully so.

Then one random night I got up in the middle of the night and unintentionally ended up scaring her shitless and she had a full-blown panic attack.

She was okay after a little while but it was like something clicked for her that night.

It was like she realized that we were on her side and we watched her change from this angry

and sad little girl to the ambitious young teenager we know today. It started with her telling

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