What does romantic attachment after adoption actually feel like? Two Chinese transracial adoptees (Leah & Tayler) take an honest, curious, and navel gazing look at dating and relationships. Leah is currently single with unflinchingly high standards out on these streets. Tayler is a dormant bisexual in a long term hetero relationship. Together, they have exactly zero birth parents and countless “abandonment issues.” 

They’ll talk about: fear of abandonment, setting standards, object permanence, in-law “adoption,” joking about trauma, defense mechanisms, domesticity, parenting your inner child, stability and control, The Primal Wound, and (for some reason) Sigourney Weaver.

Content Warning: adoption, birth parents, abandonment, childhood trauma.

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About the podcast: 

Produced by Leah Kelly-Reingold and Tayler Bunge

Co-created and hosted by Leah Kelly-Reingold and Tayler Bunge

Recording and editing by Tayler Bunge

Marketing and design by Leah Kelly-Reingold

Production support by Sebastian Torrelio 

Theme by The Blasting Company 

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Additional Resources:

The Primal Wound (1993, Nancy Verrier)