A MUM with a vivid imagination has invested so much time in her fantasy offspring that she now prefers them to her real ones.
Emma Bradford loves her children, but has found she is far happier spending time with the make-believe versions of them she has created in her head.
Bradford said: “I don’t wish to boast but my imaginary family are good-looking academic achievers who approach life with humility, dignity, and a profound respect for everything, especially their mother.
“They’re thoughtful, kind, polite, athletic, talented and intelligent, and also have a strange obsession with emptying the dishwasher. Basically like an updated version of the von Trapp children, but without all that annoying singing.
“Compared with them, the actual rabble I gave birth to just don’t compare. They only notice me when they want feeding, otherwise they’re glued to their devices sending memes to each other on the sofa.
“Sadly my imaginary children are growing up fast, and it won’t be long before they leave home to become doctors, lawyers and world-class tennis players, while still finding time to come home for Sunday dinner every week and call every day.
“But at least it will give me time to get started on my new imaginary husband. The real one called me an ‘unhinged fantasist’ and left a couple of years ago.”
