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[quote=Anonymous]Nope, you're not the only one.  We have two in college, one entering senior year in high school and a dad with lung cancer.  I travel a significant amount for work and have also been traveling the twelve hour drive to see the elderly parent (isolated area, few plane flights).  I feel like I'm never home!  
We had this fantasy about our empty nester 'honeymoon', and we are hearing from many of our friends that this never happens.  You are never actually alone together, because the day that the youngest moves out to college you may have an elderly parent move into that bedroom. (Happened to a friend.)  You never actually have the money for that spur of the moment vacation because you spent it all traveling to visit elderly relatives.  It appears that the cycle may be that you finish caring for your elderly parents and in-laws just in time to be the grandma and watch your children's children.  Lord only knows what happens when we get old.
But no, you're not the only one.  I can completely sympathize.[/quote]

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