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[quote=Anonymous]I guess I'm feeling a bit differently. I'm seeing my child heading off to college and will no longer be living at home. At some point I'm going to have to share them with a partner. All of that's a good thing and I'm happy and excited to see what the future holds for them. But I am (inwardly and won't show to them) devastated at them leaving. I feel like their childhood is over (b/c it is) and I can't protect them and have them close. I genuinely enjoy my child as a person and I'm going to miss them tremendously.

It's not that I fear being alone with my spouse but going back to that much 1:1 alone time with him is a little overwhelming. We have alone time now but it feels like it's going to be hard to go back to pre-child DINK life. Having had the benefit of our kid, the pre-kid life is not the ideal anymore. I like the bustle of things to do, having people here, having my kid's friends in/out . . .

I also kind of feel like . . . 2/3 of my life is kind of over. I'm feeling mortality. Friends and family are dying and receiving health diagnoses. People are dispersing to retire. I feel like my "tribe" is dissipating.

I'm def feeling down, unhappy, stressed about the big changes coming at me.

Did anyone else feel that way? Or did? How did you deal? I'm not prone to depression but maybe it's a little of it setting in?[/quote]

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