What is something you've had to make peace with never having?

[BobbiPinsOn]

a good singing voice

An emotionally available mother. Good looks.

I've got a lot to be grateful for as well though.

Not made peace with and never will is not being healthy. Crohns, cancer, depression.

Another child. He didn’t want one.

Praise from my parents. My mother did once say "well done " to me in 1994, but nothing before or since!

Some sort of social life/a group of close friends.

Financial security.

A second child.

Good mental health.

To travel abroad.

Having a nice home (decoratively, no more clutter, tidy)

A good relationship with my dad or sister
A large social circle or being a social butterfly
Kids
My own house

Having a nice home (decoratively, no more clutter, tidy)

Oh yes this too.

Being in a group of female friends.

@OldTinHat

A pogo stick 😪

try amazon!

I bought one for my DS last year. :) I got on it once when slightly tipsy though.

A proper wedding. Love. Owning a house. So many babies. A smallholding.

Being able to ice-skate or ski - definitely too old to learn now.

A holiday in New Zealand.

My forever home

@Chasingsquirrels

Mr Frosty (as a child).

Me too, my mum read something about it having little bits of plastic in it and refused to buy one!

A third child - I had two daughters - never wanted a son TBH so wanted a third daughter - the middle one miscarried but the 2 I have have been the best thing in my life so really I have no real reason to complain - I do think about the one that never made it though. I sometimes try to imagine how she would have been - definitely different to the other two but how exactly. My wife was pretty definite about not wanting another so… it couldn’t have been any other way because my wife didn’t want to adopt or foster either - these are things you have to agree on so there you go.

My health and independence back.

Oh, and pets. At least one dog, and as many cats as feasible.

A big family.
A good night’s sleep.
A ramshackle house in the country.

@OldTinHat

A pogo stick 😪

Get one from Amazon. I got a Space Hopper. Always wanted one as a child.

A Mclaren 720s in volcano red and hair that doesn't stick up at the back.

A good singing voice here too! i really love singing and it feels like it is in my very soul, but the sound of my voice would make you want to do rip your very eyeballs out. It is quite heartbreaking! Everytime I start to sing I have to stop myself to protect other people's mental health, while I die a little inside.

The other thing is cashmere loungewear at the moment.

A "proper" conversation with my eldest child. He's disabled and very repetitive. Apple of my eye though, he's amazing but I wish we could communicate more easily.

A house in the countryside with a bit of land for a decent veggie patch, a few ducks, chickens, maybe a pig, a pony. preferably run down so I can work on it.

Slim figure

Ambition, my mantra throughout my life seems to be "If at first you don't succeed, give up"

At the moment I feel like I’ll never come to terms with not becoming a mother. I’m 38 and was cheated on by ex dp of near on 20 years who quoted amongst other reasons for it - not giving him a baby. I left him and ow was pregnant within months.

So yeah, motherhood. Mental health too since the “journey” of the last 8 years sent that packing, and contentedness.