Loneliness as a child in relationships in life It also strikes me I feel I have always had to cope There was no-one to share with as a child everything fell on my shoulders. It’s very claustrophobic there wasn’t any way out there wasn’t anywhere to go really trapped in a way I couldn’t bypass them I couldn’t get anywhere without going through either mum or dad I always felt if there’d been two of us it would have been so easy I think it’s affected my confidence in myself I was so isolated it’s narrowed my experience of being a child in the way I feel – I very much lived in an adult world a lost, lonely figure is the image I now see No-one to be a child with It was kind of not feeling met at my own pace and space Not having space to express [...]
