My husband and I thought we'd travel and reconnect once our youngest left for college, but we've been sitting across from each other at dinner for six months now and realizing we don't really know how to talk to each other anymore. We both keep waiting for the other person to suggest something or bring up what we're going to do with all this space and time, but mostly we just ask about work and scroll our phones.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who built their partnership around shared parenting must now rediscover who they are together when that central organizing principle is gone.
“Where Are You with The empty nest?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.