Promises vs Reality: Sydney's Open Agreement Journey

Cate & Ty Break It Down

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In today's episode Cate & Ty sit down with Sydney Curtin, a birth mom who shares her complex journey of open adoption. Sydney opens up about the coercion and pressure she faced from the adoption agency, the promises made by the adoptive family, and the heartbreaking reality when those promises began to unravel. She also describes her initial hopes for an ongoing relationship with her daughter even after deciding for adoption. Cate and Ty share their thoughts on the stark differences between the idealized version of "open adoption" and its often-painful reality. Sydney also discusses the often-unseen effects of adoption on her other children and her ongoing fight to maintain a connection with her daughter even as the adoptive parents have tried to cut ties.

For more information on Sydney's work check her out at www.coachcurtin.com and @coach_sydneycurtin . Also visit https://www.unplannedgood.org/

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to Kate and I break it down. I just want to say thank you for the
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0:31.2	support and today we are with Sydney and, you are a birth mom, right?
0:39.9	I am a birth mom.
0:41.0	Okay.
0:41.4	And I have two children that I raise in my home as well.
0:44.1	Okay.
0:44.7	Can you tell us a little bit about, like, your journey of becoming a birth mom, what you
0:49.6	were going through and kind of how it all went?
0:52.1	Yeah, that's a packed question.
0:53.7	Yeah, it is.
0:54.3	It always is.
0:55.2	Yeah, yeah, let me scrap that up real quick in a package.
0:59.7	I found out I was pregnant in college.
1:02.9	I was finishing a degree in psychology.
1:06.4	I had a long childhood of trauma and hurt, broken home home found out that I didn't really know the person
1:15.3	that I was having a kid with. It was not, no effort to get pregnant. It was accidental and whatnot.
1:22.3	And then my dad sort of said that if I didn't place the child for adoption, that he just wouldn't have
1:28.3	anything to do with me. And lots of stuff went into all of those moving factors, of course.
1:33.1	Were you living with your dad? No, actually, I rented a condo from him that he owned.
1:38.3	Oh. But my mom passed away when I was young, and so I have always found myself really looking for my dad's approval,
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