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What Happens When Tiger Parents Face Empty Nest Syndrome

I quit my job to manage my twin sons' academic schedules and now they're both at good colleges but I have no identity and no idea who I am when I'm not optimizing someone else's performance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You have so thoroughly merged your identity with your children's achievement that their independence leaves you without a sense of self.

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