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[quote=Anonymous]OP I feel for you. I am also 48 but my kids are much younger. I married late, no kids, divorced, married again and had 3 kids. Even though I have some years to go, most of my friends are saying goodbye to at least their first child, so I have wept with them as I imagine the day my own kids will leave home. I really hope you are able to get help and really embrace the next phase in your life.

Like the pp, I do find it painful when comments like "but being home with my kids came first". I may be overly sensitive because that is my absolute dream and I have tred everything to try to make that  work, without success, so far.  I don't know, it somehow made me feel like you seem to believe that for working moms that doesn't come  first and therefore we may not feel the loss as acutely as you do. That we are  somehow less invested in our kids and will miss them less. I hope that's not how you feel but just letting you know that that is how what you said came  across to me.

I really do hope you are able to move on from this. You and you kids are entering a new phase of your relationship which had its own pleasures and adventures. Enjoy it. 
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