Kaelyn Moore

And then after that, they're an adult.

They choose where they live and who they can see.

But maybe I have more control if we're together because I can be the one with the final say.

But if we're apart and I just send them with my... How often were you at your bio dad's?

It kind of depended.

Like early on, my mom would really like try to make it work and like wanted me to have a relationship.

And so he was close when I was a baby and then moved further away as I was like five to ten.

And so I'd go do weekends down there and.

it just got to a point where it's like I would cry every time I had to go I didn't want to go I was stressed I was it was just like horrible so then she was like didn't force it and then it was like birthdays and Christmas which was it was great yeah going through high school like you obviously I think I had like a big abandonment wound and like a lot of issues and then like

I had a little sister and I was like, why is he a good dad for her and not for me?

So like you're still a kid.

You'll still go through those very normal things.

But in the long term, now 2020, like being passed and having all this hindsight, I'm like so thankful that it did go the way it did versus 50-50 split custody.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How long do you think it took you to kind of come to terms with the way that it all went down?

I honestly don't think I did until like recent years.

Like maybe I'd be curious to like listen to old episodes of me talking about stuff on the podcast and like what like angle I take to address similar stories that I can relate to.

But I honestly think