Life's Changes
For the past fortnight, my husband and I have been having to get used to something that we hadn’t experienced for almost 27 years – a house with no children in it. Two weeks ago, we took our youngest to Manchester and deposited him in his university halls of residence; almost to the day 8 years before, we had made a similar trip with our eldest. Unlike our son, who for the past year had been counting down the days, I really wasn’t sure how much I was looking forward to his leaving. I had very few worries about him, but how would my husband and I cope with only each other for company? And, more profoundly, what does it mean for us in terms of how we frame this next part of our lives? Going from being parents every day, to just being ourselves … How will that feel? What do we do? Our lives now are very different to the ones we had before the kids came along. Being nearly 30 years older means our interests have changed – we no longer go out to bars every night! Back th...