What happens after your children move out on your own?

Our children are in the process of moving out (ages 22 and 19). One has already moved out and the other will finish school and move out sometime in the next 6-9 months. Our goal was to raise thriving, independent, and self sufficient children - we are almost there.

All of the different stages we have gone through with our kids have happened gradually with continual adjustments along the way.

Neither my husband nor I are the same people we were before the kids were born for many reasons. We are older, we have way more life experience, and we have learned tons over the years in many areas of our lives.

We have an amazing marriage, a lovely friendship, and a deep love for each other. We of course love our children, but we are both looking forward to it being just the two of us again. We get along fantastically.

Not much if anything about our life is the same as it was over 22 years ago when our first child was born. So very many things have happened, both good and bad.

What happens after MY children move out on MY own?

If your children move out on *their* own . . . .

You are never the same person you were, even yesterday. Your experiences add to you as a person and change you.

What happens is you just go on with your life, only now you visit with your children and catch up with them on the phone. This is the natural progression of life. It's not fair to them to not let them function on their own.

When they were born, your goal as a parent was to equip them to be functional human beings. You have reached that goal! Celebrate a job (hopefully) well done!

I assume you mean on their own. In cases I see parents either grieve or they party. My parents had 6 kids and the last two moved out last year. They have not stopped partying (my parents that is). I was their second kid and the first to move out so they were sad when I left.

No....since you know more about life and more about yourself it's even more fun than it was before the children.

Death

PARTY