Since I am a single Girl child in a nuclear family(mom,dad&me), I would like to share my experience :

1. I am the center of attention at my house. The entire focus of my parents is me. They can sense my slightest movement in house from switching off my WiFi modem to sneaking in kitchen for midnight snacks.
2. Your parents are your best friends. We talk , gossip , shop , eat,sleep do almost all the things together. I hardly go at my relatives or friend’s place for sleepover as my parents start missing me.
3. You become very sensitive. I am not used to fights that siblings have and hence you become timid because parents are overprotective. My dad gets teary even in my smallest of injuries or illnesses.
4. Insecurity - The thought of my parents ageing or me leaving them (not literally) post marriage scares the shit out of me :P.
5. Possession - Since you are pampered..and given all the things you don’t develop a habit of sharing. All the things are your own things. Then you are struck by the feeling “I want my OWN brother/sister”
6. Expectations - Oh Yes !! like all the Indian parents mine too expect a lot from me.

People tell me you are lucky you don’t have a sibling and I feel like saying to their face no you are wrong , you don’t know the value of that bond.

Okay now you must be feeling this is all negative. But I want to share that I am super proud of the fact that my parents decided not to have a second child due to weak financial health at that time and wanted to give best of everything to their only one.

Their struggle has made me very responsible , their expectations have made me push my limits &succeed and their values make me feel blessed everyday.

At the end of the day.. YOU RULE THE HOUSE :p