I'm an only child, and have always felt quite bitter towards my parents for it. I feel like I have missed out on so much, and now that my parents are divorced I feel like I'm not part of a family as it's just me and my Mum. It's wrong for me to be resentful.. but my friends have so many amazing memories with their brothers and sisters, trips to the beach where they made sandcastles and stuff. But I don't have any memories like that, I remember my parents making a huge effort to take me places but I always felt quite isolated as there was this vast gap between myself and my parents. My parents were great, but not the company of a sibling at a similar age.
And as I get older I always worry that when my mum and dad die, I will be left alone. People with brothers and sisters seem to have this network of family around them, growing up at the same time as them and with them. But I won't ever have that, I don't have any cousins we really talk to and everyone I love in my family is much older than me.
Are there any other only children out there that feel the same way as me - or am I just wanting what I don't have?
And as I get older I always worry that when my mum and dad die, I will be left alone. People with brothers and sisters seem to have this network of family around them, growing up at the same time as them and with them. But I won't ever have that, I don't have any cousins we really talk to and everyone I love in my family is much older than me.
Are there any other only children out there that feel the same way as me - or am I just wanting what I don't have?