"I have a few friends with kids the same age, and have been half-jokingly bemoaning with them how quiet our houses have become. But while my married friends are focused on the reality of figuring out life as a couple without kids at home, including taking up new hobbies together and posting photos of the travels they're now embarking on together thanks to their newfound extra time, as a single parent, the shift feels different, and lonelier."
"My ex-husband and I divorced five years ago, but we've remained close friends and committed co-parents, sharing custody of our now 21-year-old and their younger brother. When we split, I wasn't interested in keeping the house we shared, as I was the spouse who initiated the divorce, and my work involves a fair amount of travel. Instead, I rented a three-bedroom apartment in a complex directly across the street from my old neighborhood,"
I became an empty nester when my 18-year-old son started college this fall. My married friends are using the extra time to explore couple activities, hobbies, and travel, while the shift feels lonelier for me as a single parent. My ex-husband and I divorced five years ago but remained close friends and shared 50/50 custody. An older child later chose to live full-time with their father because of program logistics, leaving my younger son staying every other week. The younger son and I developed rituals like taking turns picking Spotify songs during dinner and watching episodes of The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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