Hi Rebecca—

I don’t think the message of this dream is too hard to read! You’ve been thinking about leaving your husband, but your dream shows you’re worried about the “costs” — both financial and emotional.

Your dream was disturbing because, on the surface, it shows you and your husband deciding to put your “children” up for adoption — an idea in real life you find abhorrent. Dreams speak in metaphors, however, and we can see several operating in yours.

Given the background you’ve provided, we know the last few years of your marriage have been difficult. As you consider options for leaving the marriage, you naturally worry about the impact on your family. Your real children are grown adults. They are well established in their lives and most likely will accept your decision. A divorce will be much more difficult to explain to your grandchildren. Your dream shows us that you occasionally wish you were free of this responsibility to your grandchildren, but that — in the long run — it is a relationship you treasure, and you are not willing to change or part with it.

In a curious twist, it is the “adopting” couple’s decision to split up that relieves you of your contractual obligation to surrender your “children.” In a world of difficult decisions, I do not believe you are ready yet to lose your family to gain your independence. Someone else might make that decision, but you are delighted — in this dream — that it is not you.

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