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When couples struggle to reconnect after children leave home

My husband and I have been talking about what we want to do now that both kids are in college but every conversation turns into one of us listing things we sacrificed and the other getting defensive. We keep saying we want to 'rediscover each other' but honestly we might not like what we find.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who organized their entire relationship around shared parenting must now confront who they are to each other without that central organizing principle.

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