I grew up as an only child.
My mom always says that she didn’t need any other kids because got the perfect one the first time.
I don’t know about that, but I do know that not having any brothers or sisters has really influenced me as far as my own personal boundaries go. I just don’t like any other people touching my stuff. This is especially true when it comes to certain things in my home, like my heating and cooling system. I think that since I’m the one who pays the bills for our heating and air conditioning, then I’m the one who gets to adjust the thermostat. And I think that I should be the only one who touches the thermostat! I tell everyone else who lives in my house to keep their hands off of the thermostat, but sometimes my kids decide that they’re too hot or too cold and they’ll turn the temperature up or down. And I don’t take very kindly to that! My mother also lives with us, and she’s the world’s worst to turn the heating up in the middle of the night after I’m in bed. I know that she’s my mother, but I still don’t want her to touch the thermostat. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but if it does, I don’t really care. I am the only one who needs to adjust my thermostat unit. If they don’t stop touching it, I’m probably going to get one of those locking boxes to put over the top of it!