What Do I Do Now That My Son Is Leaving for College?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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As a single mom, Jessica put all her efforts into her son. Now that he's off to college, she's struggling to fill the void of his absence. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.4	Jessica, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Jessica, welcome to the program.
0:16.0	Hi Dr Laura, thank you so much for taking my call.
0:18.4	How are you?
0:19.8	Good, thank you.
0:22.3	Okay, so I became a mother at 21 years old.
0:28.0	Single mother never married.
0:31.0	And he's off to college.
0:35.0	You know, I'm experiencing the whole empty nest at 41 years old and I mean I don't know anything besides being a mother I don't know
0:45.2	where to go from now
0:49.6	convince me you know nothing besides being a mother. Convince me of that.
0:57.0	I mean I don't really have any hobbies you know my life was so solely focused on him because it
1:06.0	was just me and him I mean I worked my butt off you know because I didn't go I couldn't
1:10.9	go to college okay you worked your butt off at what my
1:17.3	current job I was a receptionist and then became a manager and kind of just trying to
1:21.4	make the money always you know trying to get
1:23.6	ahead and get promoted okay but those are what you told me you knew nothing besides
1:28.4	being a mother and that was incorrect so so far we've got one thing and that is you went from a receptionist and learned enough and well to get up to being a manager.
1:41.0	So you know that. You also know how to develop yourself from something
1:48.6	you knew nothing about. You didn't know anything about being a mother and then you took that on. You didn't know anything about being a mother and then you took that on you didn't know anything about being an office worker and you took that on
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