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My experience is there is this dynamic you are describing, and then there's the period when your kids enter late adolescence or get ready to go off to college,
by cmrdporcupine 2y ago
My experience is there is this dynamic you are describing, and then there's the period when your kids enter late adolescence or get ready to go off to college, and suddenly it's time to invent yourself again.
It can be very difficult to adjust to the process for when your kids are no longer tied to you at the hip for physical and emotional support on the day to day cycle and it's more on the macro ... financial... level.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoYeah, the empty nest is a trying time when you've identified primarily as "father" for over two decades. At the same time, "reinventing myself" was to retire at exactly that moment. I was lucky of course to be able to do that — by cashing-out the expensive California home and then "down size" back to the midwest where I grew up. I am considering substitute teaching in the area in order to maintain an income — a more modest one, this being Nebraska.