What’s Next After You Become an Empty Nester
As school starts back up this week, the silence may be deafening in your home if you’ve sent your youngest teenager off to college and your home feels like the empty nest. It’s hard to describe the gut wrenching feeling parents experience when they realize their life as full-time parents has ended. Traditionally, Mom’s cry for a couple months and Dad’s do a little dance celebrating the lift of responsibility. The transition is not easy.
However, no more piles of dirty laundry, Mom’s taxi service or attempting to be a gourmet chef like Paula Dean trying to figure out what your kids will eat these days. What could your daily life be like 12 months from today? If you allow yourself to play a little bit more, you will quickly find being an empty nester is all its cracked up to be.
After becoming an empty nester a few years ago, I quickly realized my husband was right, our life has become simplier again. He now has all my attention and I have his. I laugh more often now. Was I too busy trying to be a super Mom to notice funny things before? My husband and I have fun together all the time, even in this wicked economy.
If you’ve become an empty nester for this first time, hang in there. These difficult transitioning months will pass. I encourage you to travel if you can to explore the best states to retire. Start noticing the big smiles on Baby Boomer faces who are seasoned empty nesters enjoying retirement. I’ll bet you've never noticed them before. The empty nest brings with it permission to play golf everyday, enjoy art classes you never had the time for and walk the beaches in the early morning to watch the sunrise.
As you settle in the empty nester role, you will find your college kids are not certain where they will live when they finish college. You’ll be lucky if they even come home once they’ve met a girlfriend or boyfriend. Don’t get stressed about it. The door is opening wide for you to consider where you want to live. Don’t cling on to your kids relocation destiny. Talking from experience, as each year passes, your college children will change their minds often as they spread their wings for the first time.
If you are considering relocating to the Southeast at retirement, this is a great time to put your toe in the water and explore the best states to retire, while real estate prices are extremely low. When you compare the cost of living in the Southeast, you may be surprised to find out how much you can save by relocating.
Real estate developers in the Southeast are eager to share with you their resorts, golf communities and exciting lifestyle choices available to you. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee are still the best states to retire in the Southeast because they offer a low cost of living, high quality of life and mild weather (this week excluded as Hurricane Irene barrels towards the coast).
I know how you feel this week and send you cyber hugs. You will eventually be happier being an empty nester. And it gets better. Grandchildren are coming soon and they are boatloads of fun! Your life is far from being over. Your life now is unfolding into a new chapter which you are writing.
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