1) What about your own family, wife, kids, etc., assuming you have one? They have feelings, too.
2) What about the family of the one you are trying to reconnect after so many years? Could there have been a good reason beyond your reasoning, if not imagination, that accounts for the other party's not wanting to be found so many years later?
3) Fantasy is sweet while it lasts in one's head. Once it meets reality, though, it often has the tendency to reveal to be crushingly disappointing, sometimes even devastatingly cruel.
2) What about the family of the one you are trying to reconnect after so many years? Could there have been a good reason beyond your reasoning, if not imagination, that accounts for the other party's not wanting to be found so many years later?
3) Fantasy is sweet while it lasts in one's head. Once it meets reality, though, it often has the tendency to reveal to be crushingly disappointing, sometimes even devastatingly cruel.