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yeliabyeliab June 16, 2023

I am also an only child but of a single mother. My experience was different as I also deal with the trauma of abandonment from my Father not wanting to be part of my life. My mother also never had time to play or invest in me so my childhood was alot of me spending time alone and I didn’t have a big network of cousins or neighbourhood pals to be part of. The result is an adult who is quite lonely, resentful, and searching for something I cannot find. To those considering an only child that’s fine, but you as the parent must take it upon yourself to ensure that child has a network of family, friends, neighbours for them to feel safe, and part of a community,       and also learn that they have someone they can turn to in the event you are not there for whatever reason. I would give anything to have grown up with a ‘normal’ family. Just my perspective from someone whose has to go through a lot of therapy to get here. 


yeliabyeliab October 7, 2021

Health professionals are always going to be risk adverse. Yes it’s extremely sad the wonderful Gladys has no longer our premier but give this guy a chance. Just coz he might not align with your beliefs (he doesn’t align with mine on women’s rights, gay marriage etc) doesn’t mean he can’t be a premier who can guide us through this difficult time. He’s also right, it’s an economic and health crisis. Why is the death of someone due to covid more important than the person whose lost everything and cannot provide for their family and turns to alcohol, family violence or taking their own life?


Covid is awful but other awful things don’t and have not stopped during this time either. If we don’t learn to live with it now when then?

yeliabyeliab October 7, 2021

@mumma-cat what happened to innocent until proven guilty? If you don’t think all politicians have an air of corruption and self interest/promotion about them then you haven’t been paying attention. 



yeliabyeliab October 5, 2021

I imagine he’s on a tight leash as he wasn’t elected, unlike our gal Gladys. He and opposition leader Chris Minns know if Perrottet gets the public on the wrong side Liberal Party is gone. I’m nervous but I’ll give him a chance.. the public will be watching him closely. 

yeliabyeliab May 14, 2021

I don’t speak with anyone from high school at 34 either. I made my friends I have now from work, going to the same bar/club each week and seeing the same person/mutual connections. I have different groups but they all know each other now after multiple times I have made the effort to invite them out to the same event I knew they would all enjoy and the same in return for me. You can’t sit there and complain you don’t have a group of friends if you don’t at least attempt to try to facilitate connections  and make that happen. 

yeliabyeliab March 4, 2021

Everybody has the right to know their biological parents and anyone who deprives their child of that is selfish (not saying this woman is doing that in the article).


Look back at the children who became adults from true anonymous donations in earlier years the and the mental and emotional pain it has caused them. Hence why in Australia children can access their donor at 18 and so many laws have been changed around that.

If you grew up with both your biological parents you really can’t understand this.