Remember those days when you were all by yourself- the happy-go-lucky loner. Then you get some company- you get married, and you start being fruitful and are multiplying. There is the wife- the queen, and you- the king of your small kingdom-your own very household...............and you get all sweetly "daddied-up".
Sir, don't get used to it so much, rather be prepared for another round of life adaptation. It will surely come. Depending on how well spaced-out your children are, it will come upon you in a few years, or over a period of maybe, ten years if you are lucky. One after the other, they will go off to college, and the best you can hope for are the phone calls. For me, it has been coming quite gradually, and as the "baby" prepares to go to college in less than one year from now, I have myself thinking of what it will all look like. I am psyching myself up real good-telling myself it will be okay.
My approach to an empty nest? Yeah! A good excuse to sell the large house which at one point housed six, but will soon be housing two, one of them part-time, as my wife works most nights.
It will probably not be too bad, or so I think. Especially when you think about how much better it will be than your condition at the beginning of this narration. (See the first line)
After all said and done, your wife will still be there, and the children are still likely to come home from time to time.
Cheers :)
Any suggestions for adaptations to an empty nest? :)
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