Reply to What do travel sports obsessed parents do after the youngest kid goes off to college?

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "What do travel sports obsessed parents do after the youngest kid goes off to college?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the process of dealing with this, and I am having a harder time than my husband. It's not that his identity is wrapped up with their sports lives; he absolutely loved watching the kids play sports (and coaching them when they were younger). He misses them and supporting their athletic endeavors. We do remain friends with families we met through their sports, so some of the social aspects have not gone away.

For me, I feel liberated to engage in less stressful activities of my choice. I started a volunteer job that I love, and that has helped with the transition.  [/quote]

The parents' social aspect is what I assume is the hardest adjustment. You can say you'll remain friends but if those friends are still wrapped up in travel sports with their younger kids, they're still socializing and boozing with each other in the travel sports obit. It's not like you are going to drive to the hotels they're all staying at to hang out. It sounds like it must be depressing, at least at first. Kids are gone and so are so many of your adult friends.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics