It's Not Just About Me

KPHRED Work - Life Balance Radio · Nov 4, 2026 · 1h 3m

Reunion is not the finish line - it is the beginning of a much harder conversation. Chris Thomason’s story shows what really happens when an adoptee finally finds his birth mother: the shock, the secrecy, the grief, and the long work of learning to move at someone else’s pace.

After decades of carrying rejection and violence from an unstable adoptive childhood, Chris spends years searching before a chance connection, a supportive investigator, and the wisdom of birth mothers in CUB lead him to Lorraine. What follows is not a tidy happy ending, but a secret four-and-a-half-year relationship, a…