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

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a good singing voice

A partner or family

Good legs. Even when I was underweight and skeletal I still had massive footballers thighs and fat knees. Only surgery could change them.

A good singing voice. I can't sing in tune. Can hear the tune in my head clearly but an entirely different grunting noise comes out of my throat!

Oh yes! All of this!

And I was given a Mr Frosty for Christmas 😂 My mother was wrong about the other things, but she got that one spot-on: it's useless!

You can get slides that go on the stairs!

I so want this. DC are adults now but if they ever produce grand children for me, that's the excuse I need.

A sports car when I would have looked good in a sports car

Now I'd just look like a woman with a late mid life crisis

Have had to make peace with... getting no peace.

Mine is very similar to minmooch I have accepted that my son died but I don't think that I will ever be at peace with why he had to have had bipolar disorder or that he felt he had to die.

Early retirement (not for want of trying!)

And running another marathon. Stupid broken body.

Being able to dance properly!

Children.

A second child.

A wedding.

I'm very ambivalent about marriage in general and will probably never marry, but I would have loved to have been a bride.

for all those who've lost people, or have unloving relatives.

Good singing voice here too. If I could wave a wand and change one thing, that would be it. I'm actually tone deaf, so it will never happen in this life.

A daughter.
I do however have two wonderful sons so I feel very lucky.

A second child.

7 IVFs & 4 MC’s. My mortgage would have been paid off by now if I had accepted it sooner though.

A horse. All my life I've yearned for a horse but like the vast majority this was never affordable. I came close once but am actually now grateful I didn't do it.

A nice figure. I have love handles and a flat arse no matter how thin I get. No chance could wear a nice fitted/tight dress.

Financial security and probably a big house that we can all fit comfortably in. I just don't see it ever happing for us.

I never had a happy childhood.

I’m 48 now but I always remember my dad beating my mum up and her walking to the hospital with a cloth covered in blood over her nose.
I must of been only 6 or 7 as I was in primary school.

Trivial I know, but an item of Andrew Grima jewellery.

A flat stomach. Literally don't think I have ever had one even when slim everywhere else.

Any kind of sporting ability.

Green fingers.

I am good at other things though so never mind.

A healthy relationship with food.

Land - I really have made peace with this, as the thread title suggests. Reading this thread I feel so blessed and lucky so not owning a few acres (as opposed to renting them) seems a pretty minor travail in life.

I have not made peace with never seeing my son grow up (he died young) and I never will.

Huge hugs to all those who've never had a mother's love - I must stop being irritated by mine

A career.

A loving protective mother