I think most everyone has something they deal with. "Normal" families are not perfect, yet from the outside looking in, they seem to be. I had a stable family - hardworking, good, "normal" parents and siblings, but I still struggle with a couple things from that seemingly "normal" life. So, carrying jealousy and comparing your life to others' lives that may or actually may not have been as great as they appeared to be, is futile. Try to forgive and find a way to make peace with the fact that you can't change the past, but you can vow not to perpetuate those negative behaviors into the future. Good luck.

My friend Mandy had a normal family growing up. Shes one of the only people I know that did.

I feel exactly the same.

I've wondered what it would be like to have had a normal family. I grew up with my mum repeatedly sectioned for mental health so my grandparents part raised me cause my mum was in hospital but I think I wouldn't be me if I was raised any other way.

Life is so unfair

Sucks. Makes people without ordinary lives more interesting though

I used to wonder what I would be like had I not endured so much abuse and neglect as a child, but I gave up those thoughts a long time ago. There’s no way of knowing which parts of me would still be similar and which would be very different.

I am genuinely happy for the children growing up with support and stability.

I had a normal ordinary family life, the problem was elsewhere and I feel damaged for good. You might not know what people carry.

We never truly know what happens behind closed doors. A life that looks perfectly normal on the surface can hide a deeply tragic reality underneath.