If you were an only child, did you wish you had a sibling?

As someone who grew up the youngest and had large age gaps with their siblings that was bad enough for me. I’ve never ever wanted to leave my son as an only child, we’re expecting our second now and we will be done. The age gap will be 3.5 and newborn I would never of coped with them closer together I know that much. But I just couldn’t imagine him being alone and there being no siblings or being an uncle or cousins or anything.

This is what I’m thinking! We have such a small family his aunt and uncle likely won’t have kids themselves and I just don’t want him all alone. I cherished my brother.

I have many siblings, but I am friends with this lovely elderly woman who was a only child (so was her husband) and she said that both of them didn’t like being an only child and that they wanted to make sure they had multiple children so they would have each other.

She was so so pleased when I announced my second pregnancy. Especially after I said I wasn’t sure about going through it all again 😅

Thank you both ❤️ I feel like this is just cementing my choice to have more than one. I lost my brother when he was 28 and I was 30 but our childhood was amazing.

Yes I’ve always wished I had siblings & do so even more now as an adult. I have a small family & dread being “alone” one day

It’s hard cuz personally for me i would not want another kid in the house i grew up in. Cuz i had a traumatic childhood. But at the same time it would have been nice to have someone who understood what i have gone through. And when my mom died it would have been nice to have a sibling to go through everything with. But now she’s gone and it’s just me and my kids. I have no aunts or uncles cuz my mom was also an only child. So now I am in this world alone and it kinda sucks.

Thanks so much all of you. Also I was the same with my household yes we had a good childhood but looking back on it there was a LOT I didn’t know or realise was wrong at the time and my brother understood it.

I had siblings with age gaps and step siblings did not fill that gap being half gone half the time so basically I was alone a lot I cannot disagree newborns are hard but having found newborn tricks I have a list in my phone when my brain stops working again w a newborn 😂

yes 100%, i always felt lonely even as an adult now it's lonely