Dear Queenie,
My wife and I have 6 children and for a long time I have said I can’t wait until they are all grown up and out of the house and we can have some peace and quiet, but now the older ones are all grown up and out on their own and the youngest one is in high school and will be going off to college in another year or so and I can’t imagine what it will be like when it’s just me and my wife again.
It will be like starting out together all over again. Will we be enough company for each other?
Queenie, what if we don’t like what we see?—Empty-nester-to be
Dear Empty-nester-to be,
Have you talked to your wife about all this? Try to look at the bright side of being an empty-nester. Both you and your wife will then have time – and energy! – to devote just to each other, to follow up together or separately (hopefully together) on interests for which you have always been too busy raising six children, and/or to develop some new ones (again, hopefully together).
