Phaedrus: Don’t fear empty nest

Phaedrus (RE: Cindy: Dreading empty nest days ):

“There is, in my opinion, nothing to dread. The house is quieter, yes, and you miss your kids and you smile at the memory of the noisy birthday parties and you look at your phone and wish it would ring more frequently. That is all true. But you can also pick up and go anywhere in the world that you want, pretty much whenever you want, whether that is driving up to a mountain and sleeping under a canopy of stars or flying 1/2 way around the world to go to a concert.You can take long hot showers, eat breakfast for dinner and curse like a sailor, if you want, and there are no impressionable young eyes observing you, imitating you, or judging you. After a little bit of time,a little bit longer for some than for others, you begin to realize that one reason the phone doesn’t ring as often as you’d like is because you’ve raised your kids to be independent, loving, caring, productive members of society, kids that are now making their own way in the world and they separate themselves a little bit at a time from you and create their own world; that exciting, scary time when you find out if the learned the lessons you wanted them to learn.For me, this time of life is just as good as the parenthood time. Just different.”