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A lot of couples look forward to the emptiness stage of life. I think many

couples look forward to it. Some are taken by surprise like, wow that happened

quickly. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and

Aaron Smalley and Aaron you're almost there right I mean another year or two what's it

going to be like to be an empty nester now we would have been empty nesting in a year, but we adopted.

So now we're back to...

Oh, I forgot about that.

Yeah.

Having an 11-year-old or a fifth grader.

But of course, wouldn't trade it for the world. I tell all my friends who are empty nesting,

they can just adopt. And that fixes it all. There you go, that's the solution. No, seriously,

though, you both have counseled lots of couples what what kind of issues do you see

coming up well disconnection they're you know they're like who are you and the

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