My ex-husband and I finally have a good co-parenting relationship but now that our son is in college we barely have reason to communicate and it's weirdly sad. We spent fifteen years learning to be functional divorced parents and now we don't know what we are to each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who built a workable post-divorce relationship around shared parenting must decide what connection, if any, they want to maintain when that organizing principle disappears.
“Where Are You with The empty nest?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.