When the Fantasy Doesn’t Match the Reality

My best friend in the entire world is adopted and I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. She was adopted in the 90’s as an infant by an extremely loving couple who have given her the world. Not to mention they are well off and she’s never in her life had to worry about money or lack of opportunity. She has always known she was adopted and her parents have stayed very neutral about her birth parents towards her. When she was entering her teenage years she started having some behavioral issues, most likely from the lack of…