To long for 'empty nest' syndrome?

[Parsley65]

Another day of either having Dd16 ignore me or yelling at me...
Over really important issues too - today it was about toppings for jacket potatoes 🙄
AIBU to be counting off the days until she goes to uni (approx 22 months) and I can get some peace?

YANBU I will join you in the clock watching.. also mine are delightful really too. I just (confession alert) long for a light at the end of the tunnel of parenting!

These days they have a habit of coming back though! Start looking at Rightmove, now.

Ha ha! My youngest went off to uni 3 years ago. She's graduated now and living and working in her uni town 90 miles away - result! Life is wonderful. We love our kids and do loads with and for them but we love having the house to ourselves. We're like a young couple again!

I’m waiting with you OP. Just listened to the teen moaning about her avocado and the telling the animals off for daring to watch her eat it 😂 only a few years to go!

@aHintOfPercy that’s the very definition of winning at life. I want to be you!

YANBU

When my children were small and I read them 'The Three Little Pigs', I thought, "A mum would never say to her children that it was time for them to leave home."

It's not all it's cracked up to be, especially if you have sons.
Cue lots of being the mil/granny left out, when the woman's mum is part of their family.
Ho hum, you lose them soon enough.

Mine left at 18, 19 and 20. It was bliss, even though we got on really well. Just having our tiny house to ourselves was such a relief. Also it is really great when they visited or we visited them. I had mine very young so I was feee and clear by mid 40s.

My 4 eldest GCs, ages 20 to 25 are all still living at home and driving their parents nuts.

YANBU-it’s pure bliss for 7 months a year. Food from M&S, term time holidays, it’s so good.

Just ffs don’t use that carefree time to get pregnant again like dumbo here

Inliverpool1Whoopsi

Nah, believe me you'll miss her when she's gone.

Mine boomeranged back in their 20s for a while. Fortunately they'd mostly grown out of being annoying by then. Only one left in the nest now, I'm working on pushing him out

InLiverpool Haha!

Nature, innit? To make them really offensive so we can bear to part with them. Mine left home twenty years ago, but I remember counting the days for the last four years until uni. She's wonderful now. Can't wait to see her. To be fair, she was wonderful then but 'two women, one hearth' you know, not good.

My two are 18 & 16, dreading them leaving tbh, they are my favourite people to spend time with.

Can't wait. I won't have it, I tell ya. Can't wait for Ds1 to finish his GCSE's and a level's and leave. And then Ds2. Dh and I can't wait!

My youngest has just left, 6weeks in it's bliss. DH and I have the house back!

I have one at uni and a 16 year old. I'm dreading both of them being gone. They are amazing. I love spending time with them. And despite everything that the last 3 years have thrown at us they have been the easiest teenagers in the world.

Also YABVU re jacket potato toppings. They are crucial to get right .

They’re back for 5 months of the year so you get the best of both worlds.