Full-blown empty-nest syndrome – debilitating grief and loss of purpose – is mercifully rare, but that doesn't mean the transition isn't still painful and complicated, as well as exciting and ...

As teens start university for the first time, many parents are feeling bereft. A psychotherapist explains the best ways to deal with an empty nest.

"Even when you adore your kids and live in peace, love and harmony with them — as most of us do, most of the time — there’s nothing quite like that deep exhalation when the door finally ...

Letting go is never easy for any proud parent. Especially when your babies will have to make a non-stop 3,000-mile trip south the minute they leave home and not return for another three years.

Mary's situation was very different. She had three older children, and later, another two and so the age gap smoothed over the potential for empty nest syndrome. On top of that, her married ...

Ingle’s version of Empty Nest syndrome is listening to her jazz records all day if she feels like it, having her dinner whenever she wants, eating whatever she likes and even going to the ...

Empty nest syndrome is an emotional condition that occurs when children leave home and go out for college, a job, or marriage or start living separately. During this time, parents feel that their ...

Of course her nest is not actually empty as she still has her adopted children, David and Mercy (both 10), to keep her occupied and her birth daughter, Lourdes (19), is around too.