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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here who does regret having only one, but can't have more due to secondary infertility.

Do any of you who loved having just one ever feel like you are not a "real" family because you only have one?  I feel this way.  I feel like we aren't a real family because we only have one.  And I'm an only myself and always felt that I didn't have a real family growing up, and as much as I've tried to work on this, I just can't change my perspective on that.  A real family to me is 2 or more kids.  But I try to always make my child feel as if she does have a real family, I use the word family often, and we have lots of family traditions (which I never had growing up).[/quote]

How much more "real" do you need it to be? Parents, a child, diapers, sleepless nights, daycare costs, skinned knees, report cards, hockey practice, college tuition? Seriously, I cannot fathom why some people [b]choose[/b] to spend their lives torturing themselves for not living out some imaginary perfect life. And yes, I said "choose" because happiness is a choice. There are plenty of people who would have liked to have more children but for whatever reason did not, and we have chosen to make peace with it and find happiness and joy with our one-child families, which are just as "real" as any other family.[/quote]

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