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helpful.

Yeah, sure.

I will do a broad overview and then share specifically about my experience because while I'm researched, I'd rather share about my own lived experience than what I've read.

I think if you're in the US as a queer person, but just in general, the international adoption is a thing of the past.

There's some countries that will allow international adoptions, but on the whole, they're really trying to keep their people in their country.

Because again, it's really traumatic to be removed from your entire cultural base and put into another one.

So what kind of psychological preparation should gay men do before adopting? For example, what should they work through around their attachment, expectations of fatherhood, like the childhood experiences and all the trauma that we have? Like how do we navigate all that? How do we prepare for it? What kind of preparation work did you feel you have to do or you wished you had done?