How Can an Empty Nest Affect Your Marriage? Tips for Empty Nest Syndrome and Avoiding Gray Divorce
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 тра 2018
- Are you facing an empty nest and wondering if an empty nest will affect your marriage? Understanding how empty nest syndrome can affect your marriage is critically important to avoiding gray divorce and rekindling your marriage as empty nesters. Couples who’ve been coexisting in a marriage for many years, nested in a busy home with children, may realize that once the children leave the nest they have nothing left in common. Unacknowledged problems begin to rear their ugly head. The good news, with some healthy communication and a genuine willingness to make the second half of your marriage work, the empty nest years can be the start of many happy new beginnings.
Paige is an internationally recognized traumatic stress and integrative healing consultant. For more about Paige, or to contact her directly, click here: paigevaldiserri.com/
For a helpful article about dealing with Empty Nest Syndrome, click here: www.gottman.com/blog/rescue-m...
For more videos about Love and Relationships after 50, click here: 2ndact.tv/category/videos/lov...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2nd Act TV is a resource full of motivation, inspiration and information for men and women over 50! Our content is focused on helping you get the most out of your 2nd half of life.
Find us here!
Home Base: 2ndact.tv/
UA-cam Channel: / @2ndacttv
Our Blogs: 2ndact.tv/blog/
Facebook: / 2ndacttv
Instagram: / 2ndacttv
Twitter: / 2ndacttv
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There’s another layer to this for me, connecting and reconnecting with my parents in their 70s who I moved far, far away from and my younger sisters, who themselves live near our parents but I didn’t spend barely any time with for 20+ years… they were teenagers when I moved out of home. I want them in my life over the next 5-25 years…
I can relate to this ladies! Yes, I agree after the kids it is a time to get to know your spouse again and yes, it can be challenging unfortunately. I found encouragement from this to know that it happens to others as well but I do feel with a lot work together as a couple it an be rekindled and set on fire again. ;~)
We agree!! :-) Thanks for your comment JC!
waiting for our youngest to finish school and then I am outta here! currently, getting all my ducks in a row for a smooth departure! think of it as a business transaction and all the anger and emotion is gone.
Thanks for addressing this topic and putting it on you tube. My children are 14 and 18… young men, and I’ve been married since 2001… I’m not yet 50. My husband has a career that he has crafted. He is in a good place with his job. For the past 19 years everything I’ve chosen to do has been about supporting him and then the boys needs. We moved far away from my parents and sisters, and even moved countries… now I have a problem… a big problem…. I feel a drive to move back to be near my parents in their twilight years… my husband and sons have no desire to move back to have my relatives in their lives…. It’s breaking my heart… do I choose my parents and sisters, or my spouse and two sons who do t need me so much except as a maid. I don’t have a career because I constantly dropped everything so that I could help my boys keep together.
That's almost exactly my situation, and how I'm feeling. No easy answers. And trying process my need to be near my parents, when that's not an realistic option right now.
You stay with your spouse because of the choice you made 19 years ago. The biggest mistake couples make is they expend all their efforts on rearing their children while neglecting their relationship with their spouse. The truth is, your children will be with you for about 18 years, but your spouse may be with you 50+ years.
@@thefox1703 luckily I can travel now that the flight restrictions have eased … just need to get myself organized to live between 2 countries… the decisions I made to live with my husband 20 years ago wasn’t a decision to move so far away from my parents… it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t be able to fly back to fly to be near them 2-3x a year
So True!!!
I am empty nester at 42 so that's the worse at times.
Thanks for your comment Amanda! I know it's a hard time. The good news, you are sooooo young and have so much life ahead. This is the time to think about what YOU want and need!
Staying for the kids on either side when the other party is committed long term is actually extremely evil. You just wasted years of your spouse's life and essentially FAKED IT. Doing it FOR THE KID'S doesn't make it ok to do someone like that.