Becoming “empty nesters” is quite an interesting phenomenon especially when for most of your married life you and your spouse were parents. Like any other segment of someone’s life there is no “how to” guide to adeptly transition from one part of my life to another.

When a couple has similar aspirations and values on how to raise their children beautiful things tend to happen. Oh, I forgot the most important ingredient that they must have in common, it’s LOVE. Un Mitigating love that never wanes to just being parents. To me and my wife that’s always been the easy part.

Fast forward to the day when we both waved goodbye to our youngest and he was off to his freshman year of college. Alas, the empty nesting period in our lives began. There are so many questions that are unanswered when the front door closes behind us and this new phase in our life as individuals and as a couple begin.

There are so many wonderful things that have unfolded over the past 12 months since our youngest left for college. We have recaptured time again. It has given us time to pursue interests and passions that we never had time to explore over the past two decades. That’s the best part.

The scary part though to me can be explained in one word, compatibly. Is my wife and I still compatible alone like we were before we had children? It’s a question that most couples have to explore and hopefully conclude that the answer is a resounding yes. Unfortunately, some couples don’t come to the same conclusion and tend to drift apart.

The answer takes time. It’s something that you just don’t wake up one day and have figured the outcome. Hopefully, love will seep through you and your significant others’s veins and keep your love alive!