I have seen so much on the Internet lately dealing with young moms and older seniors...what about us "empty nesters" or "soon-to-be-empty-nesters"? No one seems to pay attention to us anymore...
We can have wonderful, uplifting, rewarding lives and still worry about hubby and the decisions our kids are making (even though we secretely KNOW they're wrong, we'd never say it to their face), whether soup's on tonight, and if that neighbor down the street is still having health problems, right? Even if everything physcial is approaching gravity-central, still...our lives are all fairly liveable on a day-to-day basis and we're able to accept life as is.
Diapers are long past...soccer's completely out of fashion in the 20-something's group that our kids have now joined...maybe we still work, but we really don't gotta do it...and hubby is pretty set on the path of upward mobility.
Let's explore some of OUR concerns...wants...dreams. Are we so different than anyone else? We still have needs and wants! We have all kinds of concerns like parents-approaching-nursing-home-care, kids-approaching-crazy-destinies, hubbies-approaching-or-should-be-thinking-of-retirement, us-approaching-wanting-something-more-from-the-daily-routine.
How about a career change? HA! TRY to change a job if you're 40+. Not gonna happen, unless you consider "customer service" as a step up. No way does Corporate America (do they deserve capitals?) think that an experienced woman with better-than-average intelligence could EVER do anything that a fresh-from-the-farm twenty-something couldn't do twice as well.
Have you had these problems?
Do you see YOU here?
Do you want MORE?
Let's hear what the grown-ups have to say!
We can have wonderful, uplifting, rewarding lives and still worry about hubby and the decisions our kids are making (even though we secretely KNOW they're wrong, we'd never say it to their face), whether soup's on tonight, and if that neighbor down the street is still having health problems, right? Even if everything physcial is approaching gravity-central, still...our lives are all fairly liveable on a day-to-day basis and we're able to accept life as is.
Diapers are long past...soccer's completely out of fashion in the 20-something's group that our kids have now joined...maybe we still work, but we really don't gotta do it...and hubby is pretty set on the path of upward mobility.
Let's explore some of OUR concerns...wants...dreams. Are we so different than anyone else? We still have needs and wants! We have all kinds of concerns like parents-approaching-nursing-home-care, kids-approaching-crazy-destinies, hubbies-approaching-or-should-be-thinking-of-retirement, us-approaching-wanting-something-more-from-the-daily-routine.
How about a career change? HA! TRY to change a job if you're 40+. Not gonna happen, unless you consider "customer service" as a step up. No way does Corporate America (do they deserve capitals?) think that an experienced woman with better-than-average intelligence could EVER do anything that a fresh-from-the-farm twenty-something couldn't do twice as well.
Have you had these problems?
Do you see YOU here?
Do you want MORE?
Let's hear what the grown-ups have to say!
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