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[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]

I agree with this poster.

I would add that you will want increasingly to "fit yourself" into your DC lives, not the other way around. See it as a continuum in which they are eventually launched, leading independent lives, and you will go visit them and live in their house. So in the in-between time, start thinking about how you can do things they like and do those things together. For a lot of teenager boys it's feeding them, so meal times or meals out. For a lot of teenager girls it's shopping. But whereever your teen gives you a window, make sure you are available and open to the window they give you.[/quote]

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