The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“The trick,” she says, “is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I was always bad at being good. I was always bad¦ Theres no hell more harsh than a memory.Theres no home more… — Micheal Larsen Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in… — Kate Battistelli Copy Share Image
“Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children.… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I suspect that 280 figure is a bit low. The reality is it's probably closer to 700 to 1,000 (students) out of… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
