Empty Nest

Parenthood is perhaps the only job in which the goal is to work yourself out of a job! What happens if you are successful? Columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen described her empty nest experience this way:

“Tell me at your peril that the flight of my kids into successful adulthood is highly liberating, that I will not believe how many hours are in a day, that my husband and I can see the world, that I can throw myself into my job. My world is in this house, and I already had a great job into which I’d thrown myself for two decades. No, not the writing job – the motherhood job. I was good at it, if I do say so myself, and because I was, I’ve now been demoted to part-time work. Soon I will attain emeriti status. This stinks.”

Not sure what to do now that your chicks have flown the coop? Concerned about how you and your spouse will handle it when there are only two places set at the dinner table? Wondering who you are now that no one is calling out, “Mom where’s my …” twenty times a day?

We understand your dilemma and have the skills to help you transition through this difficult time. There really is life after mountains of laundry and endless soccer games. We’ll help you find it!