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It's not so much a matter of liking or disliking. It is a matter of feeling a sense of belonging and fitting in. There are also biological children in the family. When I associate with other families, such as my wife's family it is easy to see how people fit in. You can see where physical and personality traits come from. That simply is not the case in a situation of adoption. It is glaringly obvious when looking at my siblings who are biological and myself. It just is not a natural fit. Most of the time when people talk about sealing of adopted children it tends to be from the parent's perspective and the desire to ensure that "their" children are sealed to them.

I am an adult adopted child that was sealed to my adoptive family. This is very troubling to me as i don't fit in to my adopted family, and feel like this sealing ordinance is an eternal sentence. Every time there are lessons on family history or temple work (which is almost every Sunday it seems) these feelings are brought back to the surface. Can an adopted child get the sealing to the adopted parents cancelled? I have asked my Bishop, but his answer was to have faith and it will all work out. Unfortunately this brings me no comfort.