What Nobody Tells You About Empty Nest Syndrome

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You face your own mortality

Raising a child for 18 years is a pretty effective way of avoiding your own mortality. You’re so focused on the life you’ve created—the one that is following you—that you haven’t looked at the life (and death) ahead of you. Empty nest syndrome gets you thinking a lot about your own mortality.

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