Getting over the 'Empty Nest Syndrome'

edad
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:46:27 +0000

The first year wasn’t too bad. There were a lot of phone calls back and forth. After a month or so, we went for a visit, listened to her play in a concert and did some sightseeing. Soon it was Thanksgiving and then winter break. The second semester followed the same pattern. The second year pattern was about the same. Now that my D is starting her 3rd year, we a really feeling like empty nesters. Visiting is started to seem less exciting. D already has plans to visits friends and will be spending much less time at home over breaks. Now that she has an apartment, she has announced that next summer she will be staying in the college city for work or internships. She has tried her wings a few times but comes back to the nest. Soon she will just fly where her interests and the air currents take her.

For many years our vacations seemed to revolve around taking D to summer camps, or college tours or interviews/auditions, and then back and forth from college. In a couple of weeks we will be taking a real vacation. We can even go in the Fall when the crowds have thinned and the temperatures are milder. Sometimes the parents need to leave the nest and also soar in the air currents.