Emptying the nest

When mine left home I felt the same, bereft.
I was talking to a work associate and he said 'How lucky are you? My son is disabled and I doubt he'll ever leave home'
It pulled me up short,we are lucky to feel this way,many never will. Just a thought.

My youngest, 26, left for Canada last week for two years but is going to try for residency. Although he has been away a lot before I feel this is the big move and like you I felt so sad as happy as I am for him. He has been a great support to me these last two years and I love his company.
However when I saw his room I cannot wait to get in there and clean clear it up and I love the fact the rest of the house isn't covered in his stuff!
So now I'm enjoying it just us two and dog. He sends me loads of pics of him driving across the rockies and I know how happy he is so all good, and I've already got used to daughter living in oz, and other son and two grandchildren live near by so my nest might be empty but it's quite fun sweeping out the eggshells!

IT will be great just the two of you, time for each other and yo do all those things you couldn't because you had other commitments. Enjoy it.

It's the feeling of being made involuntarily redundant from being needed. It hurts. The time will come, however, where you see your 'last one to go' happy with their own independence and you'll look back on that previous hurt. And it will still be there. Who wants involuntary redundancy? But it will get better, I promise.