My name is Vera and I’m scared.
I’m scared that I’m sitting here in your care home or lying in your hospital bed and you don’t know who I am. So I thought I’d tell you, whilst I’m still young (67) and compos mentis.
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When we went into pandemic lockdown, I became much more active on social media that I had been in the past so I could better stay connected to friends and loved ones. I’m grateful for how easy these programs and apps make it for us to stay in touch and have a small window into one another’s lives. But as my “feeds” fill up with pictures of parents with their kids and grandkids, I’ve been hit with some emotions I wasn’t expecting.
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I was 27 when I met my husband. I’m now 41, childless and on the verge of a marriage breakdown. When my husband said he didn’t want children, I should have believed him.
Read moreI Will
I was scared that all this time in lockdown and the way it brought me to focus on my loneliness, it emphasised my singleness and my childlessness – surely this was not a good thing?
Read moreLife Sentence
40 years ago I was getting ready to marry my first husband. We had such dreams, children, houses and of course grandchildren. Sadly children never materialised.
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