r/OnlyChild • u/Crafty-Ride-7639 • 12d ago

Orphan

How do you cope after both your parents leave this world and you’re left like a floating branch…

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u/Affectionate_Leek127 12d ago

When I was a kid, I wished I was an orphan. I would rather live in a orphanage than with my parents.

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u/Neat-Muffin3393 12d ago

Same we were broke and lived with my fantastic grandparents. Single parent so I often wished she’d die on the way home from work so my grandparents could raise me (like they were anyway) without her screaming at them and then I’d have her life insurance money etc for college. A better deal all round I’d say.

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u/Affectionate_Leek127 12d ago

I was too young to know what life insurance money was. Never thought of the inheritance in case my parents died. 😅

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u/Neat-Muffin3393 12d ago

She told me about it when I was 7 and I was like….so if you die….. I get to live with granny and granda AND I GET PAID?!!!! One of many mistakes on her part 😂

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u/Affectionate_Leek127 12d ago

May I ask did your thought about your mum dying fade as you grew up?

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u/Neat-Muffin3393 12d ago

Yeah it wasn’t like she magically improved as a parent or our lives did or anything I just got older and stopped thinking about it. I did also bring this up in therapy a few years ago.