This next year is so pressured and cictiral. Depending on where you are and what your daughter wants, the college application process is grueling, and scholarship / loan search for the parents, equally so. Take lots of deep breaths, lunaboogie.I don't know if you're a single parent or not, if you have work outside the home or not but try to populate your world if you can, before your daughter leaves. Because it's harder when your world isn't amply populated, no matter how strong you are, no matter how well you know yourself or like yourself. I think our mom selves become such a vital (and joyful) part of us, that we never truly set it aside. But I suspect we need to learn to shift it, to take those skills and apply them elsewhere. I haven't figured it out yet. I'm feeling my way, with more difficulty than I anticipated.

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Note added by ZMPAsgpNiMjJj on 2012/03/30 08:13