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When others judge your empty nest grief as unhealthy

My sister keeps telling me this is my time to focus on myself but I loved focusing on them and I do not understand why that makes me pathological.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-meaning advice can invalidate genuine loss by suggesting that parental devotion was somehow dysfunctional.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The empty nest?”

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