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[quote=Anonymous]I was one of two kids. My parents divorced, and my older brother died when I was in college.   I still miss my brother. I’ve lost the only person who would have truly understood what it was like to be a part of our family.  I also ended up being the next of kin for both of my parents separately — and felt very alone with the stresses and traumas and grief that went along with caretaking responsibilities.  There were things that we would have shared — and responsibilities that I wasn’t suited for that I didn’t have much choice about.

Being an adult “only child”  influenced my decisions about having children and even my choice of partners — because I knew that in a crisis, I lacked an extended family network of my own.

My identity was formed in many ways, as my brother’s younger sister.  I think the trajectory of my life would have been different if he had lived and he and any family that he had had — had been an ongoing part of my life.  My mom and her brothers were close until they died — and I wish that I’d been able to have that type of adult sibling relationship with my brother too.

tldr: I’m very glad that I grew up with a sibling. [/quote]

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