Comments on: Women Over Fifty—Winging It http://feistysideoffifty.com/2008/11/19/women-over-fifty%e2%80%94winging-it/ Celebrating Women 50 and Better Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeanette http://feistysideoffifty.com/2008/11/19/women-over-fifty%e2%80%94winging-it/comment-page-1/#comment-996 Jeanette Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:34:53 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/?p=331#comment-996 While I don't want those challenging teenage years back, I miss my 31 year old and 28 year old sons so very much. They have both moved 1600 miles away to Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have found myself visiting them for Labor Day, I'm flying for Thanksgiving and Christmas and I am now wondering if I am becoming one of those smothering empty nesters. I don't want to become like "Everyone Loves Raymond's Mother", but it is so hard to resist, so hard to just stop loving and stop taking care of them, so hard to stop being a Mom and I had my nest emptied well over 10 years ago. I need to morph into a loving grandmother that loves her grandson and her adult sons, and stops mothering. This is a hard one for me, my nest is empty and I try to fill with so many other things that don't fill it. Thanks for sharing. While I don’t want those challenging teenage years back, I miss my 31 year old and 28 year old sons so very much. They have both moved 1600 miles away to Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have found myself visiting them for Labor Day, I’m flying for Thanksgiving and Christmas and I am now wondering if I am becoming one of those smothering empty nesters. I don’t want to become like “Everyone Loves Raymond’s Mother”, but it is so hard to resist, so hard to just stop loving and stop taking care of them, so hard to stop being a Mom and I had my nest emptied well over 10 years ago. I need to morph into a loving grandmother that loves her grandson and her adult sons, and stops mothering. This is a hard one for me, my nest is empty and I try to fill with so many other things that don’t fill it.

Thanks for sharing.

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