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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congratulations.  You are functioning as a parent and not their friend.  Your kids are the well-adjusted ones who are naturally separating from their parents.  Enjoy the win and focus on figuring out how you want to spend your free time.  Because face it - you (hopefully) have decades in front of you after your job as a primary caretaker is over.  [/quote]

+1.  Your teens are doing what they are supposed to be doing.  I wouldn't feel jealous of someone whose teen hangs out with them all the time.[/quote]

OP here. 14DS just came home with DH and I told him how he doesn’t hang out with me and mentioned my friend and her daughter. Both DH and DS said it would be weird if DS wanted to hang out with his mom all the time.

DH seems to think we spend plenty of quality time together. [/quote]

This is…not great. You are guilt tripping your kid, telling him you wish he had crippling anxiety so he could be available to entertain you more?

I’m sorry OP, but now is the time to start separating. I’d start investing in your hobbies, career, marriage, or  health. Yes, your role as a parent & family unit is decreasing. Try to find a way to make the best of it, and also make the time you do spend together as a family fun. Plan vacations over the next couple of years, make a couple fun nights out/in, etc. But my advice is not to guilt trip the kids about living their lives - that’s a fast track to a college, & then a life, a cross-country flight away from you. [/quote]

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