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Finding Your New Main Character Era : A Guide to Empty Nesting with Grace As another school year kicks off and social media fills with dorm room setups and first-day-of-senior-year photos, many of us are quietly sitting in houses that feel a little too clean, a little too quiet. If you're reading this while your coffee grows cold in a mug that no one will accidentally steal, welcome to the club no one really prepares you for: the empty nesters . I'm here with you. My son is navigating his junior year of college—his dorm room probably looks like a Supreme drop mixed with soda pop cans and textbooks he swears he's reading. My daughter, a high school senior, has essentially moved herself into my in-laws' house, drawn there by better WiFi and... literally everything else. The thing about raising intensely individualistic kids—the ones who've been marching to their own beat since they could walk—is that when they finally spread their wings, they ...