Agnes’ son and daughter both left the family home four years ago. One day, when they jokingly hinted that they might go back there, their mother exclaimed, “We will change the valves.” Like this 56-year-old teacher, some parents are not victims of the empty nest syndrome. Some even feel a sense of relief from the pups leaving, which have gotten a little bulky.
“The departure of children does not leave any parent indifferent, asks Beatrice Copper-Royer, clinical psychologist and author of the book The day the children leave (Boiled with game). But the feeling of emptiness and consequent loss of bearings is experienced with more or less intensity depending on the person’s history and when it occurs. This necessarily implies stopping and questioning how to occupy the freed time.
Agnes and her husband struggled for a long time to figure out what to do with their free time. “We still…
Source: Le Figaro
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