Couple Adopts Baby Boy. After It's Official, They Get This Message From The Birth Mother

#1 A 21-year-old woman named Rachel decided to put her son up for adoption.

She was going through rough times and decided that it would be the best thing for the boy. Below is a photo of her son with his new family.

Rachel herself was adopted when she was an infant, and for her, adoption was a positive experience.

#2 Rachel was feeling very alone recently, so she posted her story to Imgur.

She said she was "suffering with postpartum depression" and wanted to talk about her experience. Here's what happened

#3 Rachel became pregnant last year.

"Last year, I was battling depression, and alcoholism, (I won't go into details, but it wasn't good) and ended up getting pregnant with my son. The guy didn't care about me, or his child, and knowing what a wonderful experience adoption was for me, I decided to place him for adoption."

#4 Then, she lost one of her best friends.

"After I had started talking to the adoption agency about placing him, I lost a dear friend of mine to a very rare and aggressive form of cancer called Ewing's Sarcoma. She was one of the closest people in my life, and supported me through all of my bulls**t."

"The day that she died, I received messages from the father telling me that I was a ‘whore,' and that he would never sign over the rights to his son. (He also threatened my life, but I won't go into that.)"

#5 Rachel felt like there was nobody left she could talk to.

"I distanced myself from everyone, save a few that I thought I could count on. The key word in that being ‘thought.' One let drugs take over her life, and the other was too obsessed with her new boyfriend to even bother paying attention to me. (Even though we had been friends for 11 years and she knew how alone I felt, he was more important and still is.)"

"I went to my doctors appointments alone. I handled every part of this on my own. I never told anyone how lonely I really felt, because they wouldn't listen anyway."

#6 She knows she made the right choice.

"I made this decision because I want every advantage in life for him, and I know that I am not in a place to do that. I want him to know that I love him more than life itself. If it came down to his life or mine, I would give it up in a heartbeat."