carolynbb

I'm 56 and haven't yet experienced an empty nest. I'm sure there will be parts of it that I like and probably somethings I won't like. I do enjoy time alone to read, quilt, think.....so an empty nest will probably suit me fine. My husband stills works about 50 hours a week.

NDQuilts

Let's see. If the youngest goes to college, it will be in 16 years. Have a long way to go.

Airwick156

My baby left home when she was 18. And will be 30 this next Saturday. So that makes it 12 years that I have been an emptynester...wow so that means I was 38 years old and I'm 50 now. I do miss my kids so much.

javin22

I was 44. It was terrible for me, I really went through withdraw.

gigi4419

45

collady

My DH and I became empty nesters on August 19, 2001. On November 11, 2003 we became the legal guardians of our grandsons. Last summer the youngest boy went back to live with his mother (our eldest daughter). This spring the older boy graduated from high school. He just went to college, so interestingly we became empty nesters again on August 19, 10 years later!!!!!!

Granny Quilter

I was 42, but it lasted only about 6 months. Then my son, almost 18, and his father had custody at the divorse 6 years before, ran away from his dad with 38 cents in his pocket, and hitch-hiked from Phoenix to Glendale, CA. Within a year of that, the oldest, 21 at that tme, came to live with us. I had to keep renting bigger apartments. And in less than another year the middle one came back to mom. I was alone from 2001 t0 2003, and then lived with the oldest for 3 years, and now have been alone for 5 years.I am 73 now, and fear that the middle one who has been on unemployment in CA for almost 2 years, will get desperate and come move into my sewing room!

loves_2_quilt

About 41-42, nothing changed still worked and sewed when I could.

annyroony2

46

flowerjoy

59... the only change was that I missed my son something fierce!