9 empty nest questions
For personal / provocative
- 1
What are you looking forward to about the house being quieter?
- 2
What are you afraid we will find when the children are gone?
- 3
What did we used to do before children that we could do again?
- 4
Which of these do you want the next chapter to have?
- Travel
- A smaller house
- New friends
- A project together
- More separate lives, kindly
- 5
Who are you, apart from being a parent?
- 6
What do you want our relationship with our grown children to be, and are we heading there?
- 7
What have the parenting years cost us that we should now repair?
- 8
What do you want to learn now that there is time?
- 9
What is a habit from busy years that we can finally drop?
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