The day children leave home is one that parents both anticipate and dread. After years of packed schedules, family ...

An empty nest is typically viewed as a moment in time when your child leaves home. In reality, it’s more of a verb—an ongoing process of “empty nesting.” The letting go begins in childhood, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before my daughter went to college, some friends had warned me about being an empty nester. I worried that the transition would be ...

You miss so much more than your kids' physical presence.

Introverted husband, friends and hobbies can't give the extroverted letter writer enough to fill the next chapter of life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On an ordinary Monday evening this past June, after hanging my new bird feeder and chatting with me over dinner about nothing in ...

This month, our twin boys — our only children — will fly the coop and head off to university. For the first time in 19 years, just two of us and our 12-pound Maltese Shih Tzu will be rattling around ...

Two weeks ago, I dropped my son off to college somewhere in Virginia. It wasn’t a tear-filled dropoff. You know the ones you see on television with parents sobbing as they walk away from their child’s ...

Before my daughter went to college, some friends had warned me about being an empty nester. I worried that the transition would be difficult, but it has been easier than I anticipated. I'm enjoying ...