Empty Nest

I totally agreed with what the professor was saying about parents being happy when their children left. i know that a lot of students were shocked and upset by it but to a certain extent I think it is true in every family. I think sometimes kids forget that parents are people too and although they love you they have devoted eighteen years out of their lives to raise you and make life as bearable as possible for you. They just want a break from having to be responsible all the time and having to deal with every little problem you have. I know my parents were ecstatic to see me go. They are in the process of turning my room in to a fitness center and tell me all the time how happy they are because it is so clean now that I am gone. It sounds like they don't care about me except I went to home yesterday just watch t.v. with my mom and when I got home she handed me her credit car, told me to fill up my car, and then gave me a whole new line of face care stuff that she had discovered. then we just watched t.v. for three hours, ate snacks, and talked about our lives. Just because she was happy to see me leave donesn't neccasarily mean that she doesn't love me it just means that she needs her own space so that she can be her own person again. She put in her time with me and now it is time for her to have time to herself.