It’s getting easier, but I\u2019m no dummy. I know that I\u2019m not out of the woods yet. \u00a0As my kids age, I\u2019m going to need more, rather than less help for all the new things\u2026the special needs that change with the seasons, the precarious family balance that is always shifting, the 401Ks and the college funds. I\u2019m going to need serious intervention and I want a person (or many) around me whom I can mine for wisdom.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Click the picture below to read why, in ten years, I don\u2019t want to find myself Googling \u201chow to survive empty nest syndrome.\u201d <\/strong><\/h2>\n

I want to phone a friend.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It’s getting easier, but I\u2019m no dummy. I know that I\u2019m not out of the woods yet. \u00a0As my kids age, I\u2019m going to need more, rather than less help for all the new things\u2026the special needs that change with the seasons, the precarious family balance that is always shifting, the 401Ks and the college funds. I\u2019m going to need serious intervention and I want a person (or many) around me whom I can mine …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,86,23,11],"tags":[109,28,97,46,176,209,473,55,136,119,63,54,219,84,100,465,15,90],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/people-2598196_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ca5p-1dr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}