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[quote=Anonymous]It’s hard OP. I feel some of what you feel even though  my parents are alive. I have a tiny family (one first cousin, one sibling with no kids all grandparents died either before I was born or by the time I was 5 etc). And because my parents have been divorced holidays were always hard. My dad married someone who resents the fact he has children so he has been distant since I was a teen. My mother is highly dependent on me and now with Alzheimer’s so while I see her she hasn’t ever really been a stable parent. So I’ve craved having a reliable parent figure for decades but never had one and was parentified by age 14.

Therapy has helped some (and helped me overcome all this enough to get married later in life)  but I also feel that I’m replicating all this in my own small family. My kids would benefit from a wider circle of loving people and we don’t have it, esp as we moved and are starting over.

Loneliness is hard whether it is because you lost loving parents or never really had them.

This may sound lame but getting a dog had helped me. She brings love into our small home.

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