Submitted by Soupseeds on April 8, 2009 - 11:39am.
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Most people would laugh at me if I told them I'm suffering from a midlife crisis brought on by the realization that my youngest kids are teenagers and pretty self sufficient, and I really don't know what to do with myself during the day anymore. People would laugh, and then they'd look at me with shock and say, "I WISH I had that dilemma in MY life!"
But I'm sure that many people do have that dilemma and do understand that it's not something to laugh about. I mean I can laugh at it--I love laughing and I love finding humor in life's little issues, but it's not something to scoff at. It's another threshold to cross just as the big ones where when we were growing up. First teeth, first words, first steps, potty training, feeding self, etc etc. Now on to graduation, marriage, first baby, etc.
Kids fill an enormous area of our lives, and although we had lives before children, we often forget about what that was like.
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