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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was excited to have my kids relatively young (28 and 31) but I’m actually sad I will be an empty jester so young. I’m jealous of my same aged friends who will have their kids home many more years because they started later. I didn’t think about that when I had them young. I am looking forward to traveling, but we will still have at least another decade of working after the youngest leaves. [/quote]

I had my first at the same age (second took longer) and don't really see the point of having an empty nest before retirement. There's no way we're retiring before 62 at the earliest, especially if we want to help the kids with college - spouse works for a university where they could go free, but it's small, not highly ranked, and obviously extremely close to home. So they go to college and we still have 10+ years to...keep going to work every day, eat dinner by ourselves, and what? It's not like a new world of travel and socializing is going to open up.

That said, I don't wish I'd waited longer to have them, fertility issues are real. Not for everyone but for a lot of us. [/quote]

Wow never thought about it that way. Guess that makes me feel a little better about our timing![/quote]

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