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Feathering Your Empty Nest
What happens when you drop your youngest child
off at college and come home to an empty nest?
You might be surprised to find out. By meg Lukens Noonan
High school days are over for your youngest child the vast manullority of mothers said they were happinull
and you brace yourself for sadness; the hollow er now that their children were out of the
house.null
afternoons with no one to pick up and no one to null nullnullnullnull nullniversity of nullalifornia at Berkeley
pick up after, the crushing loss of purpose. But then, study echoed her findings. nullsychologists tracked a
after a few weeks or a few months, something group of women for nullnull years, from when they were
funny happens. You find that, while of course you in their nullnulls to when they were in their early nullnulls.
do miss your children, you also feel—dare you say nullhey found that marital satisfaction increased y
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