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

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a good singing voice

A second child
Experience of going to an Olympics (as an athlete)
Living abroad

On a serious note....the chance to be with my parents and brother again. They have all passed on....I miss them so much my heart still aches. It's not true what they say that time is a healer.
I was more fortunate than some of the previous posters to have had a warm family full of love. But in a way that makes it worse as there's so much more to miss.
I really really want to believe there's some sort of afterlife where I'll be with them again.
My mum was quite 'woo" and always said she'd make her presence felt to me if she possibly could. It hasn't happened yet I don't think, unless you believe in a white feather falling at your feet. I once found a silver bracelet with a heart on it on the street....
I wish I could even dream about them but even that never happens.

Gosh, I just feel so lucky reading this thread. I feel for all of you who've really suffered. I am really grateful for everything I've been lucky enough to have - and it's pretty humbling to realise that the things I sometimes take for granted and things others feel they've had to make peace with not having.

I also still hold out hope that one day I will still possibly find a life partner who loves me fully and who I love fully.

I've had to make my peace with not having a neurotypical brain, my ADHD has really affected my whole life and I was only diagnosed in the past three years.

I think I'm ok with not being able to have another (third) child but I'm also not sure the finality of it all has really hit me yet. I would really have liked that, but it just isn't going to be possible.

Slim ankles

A son

Also a good education.

A sibling.

A sister 😔
Grew up an only child, have half brothers from fathers previous marriage. But would have loved a big sister.
Ive gone on to have 3 daughters hopefully they have that bond with each other 💕

Love. I never really found love and although I'm blessed with a child who means the world to me, I have never found real love.

'Normality' for my two young adult sons. They have been wracked with mental illnesses (anxiety disorders, psychosis, eating disorders) since they were young teenagers, and these issues just go on and on.
My greatest fear is that they will die before I do.

I just want them to be normal twenty somethings, even if that meant they would be too busy to see much of me. I now know this is unlikely and have settled on hoping they survive.

-Not being taller. I'm 5ft3 which is pretty average but absolutely envious tall women with long legs.

-Having a driving licence. I'm 34 and still trying to get it. But I'm such an anxious driver that I don't think it will ever happen 😰

-My Dad not meeting any of my DC before he passed. I moved to England, got married and had my DS. We tried to get our families together several times unsuccessfully ( due to immigration) and Dad passed before he could meet my DH and DS.

A loving husband

A loving husband
A daughter

A job I truly love

Small pert tits.

A good father for my daughter, the one she had was a violent abuser who I now consider as her sperm donor.

A nuclear family with my kids and their dad. I don't actually want their dad, it's more I feel I was robbed of that dream when he left. Still grieving what I was promised and didn't get.

A less egocentric mum
Thin and long legs
A partner without ADHD

A second child