When you’re a parent, we are constantly running after time : you have to manage the bottles of the youngest and the homework of the eldest at the same time, ensure the round trips to the activities of each one, we worry about the grades of one and the time at which the child will return another of his evening… The house is always messy and we don’t have a minute to ourselves. But when our children leave, one after the other, this time and this space that we suddenly find often plunge us into very contradictory emotions. It often happens that the joy of seeing them fly on their own gives way to great sadness, or even depression. This feeling of abandonment and uselessness that sometimes overwhelms us is called “empty nest syndrome”and it affects many parents, especially mothers.
Geraldine Mayr receives Marie-Josee Astre-Demoulin. She is an expert in intercultural communication and has published The empty nest. Story of a mother’s pain and a little guide for lonely parents, published by Favre, which is in its 4th edition. She plays down this special moment for parents and encourages us to take advantage of it to reinvent our lives!
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