My Son is Gone, and So Am I

2009-08-08T21:12:00.000-07:00

My son is gone. He moved to his own apartment to start college. But this is not about him...it is about me. I have spent the last 18 and a half years being his mother. I thought I would not be affected by the Empty Nest syndrome because I have a great career that I love, but I am finding out that I am not immune. I am finding out that half of my identity moved out when he did. Right now I am wallowing in the bad feelings. I have to do this for awhile, so please humor me.

I have been seeing ads for the movie "Julia and Julie", in which Julie cooks her way through Julia Child's cookbook. It is based on a woman who actually did that and wrote a blog about it. The thought occured to me that I may have to do something like that to invent another part of myself to take the place of the missing piece.

That's how it is.
Anne

The Empty Nest, The Lost Mother

My Son is Gone, and So Am I