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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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It's emotional when your son or daughter leaves home, and you become an empty nester. John and Danny share where they are in that journey; and Gary Thomas and Jim Daly will offer you a few tips for preparing for the empty nest years.
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| 0:00.0 | I felt a variety of emotions as various children left our home. For a couple of them, I cried, for one or two of them, I kind of high-fived my wife. I won't say who did what. But it's a tough |
| 0:15.8 | thing to raise a child to invest 17, 18, 19 years and then to see them leave. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:24.8 | Danny Werta who heads up our parenting team and Danny you're not quite there but |
| 0:29.0 | almost right? Almost I'm right on the edge of that. I have a son that's 20 and my daughter's 18. |
| 0:35.0 | They're both still at her house and my son is really pursuing a career in |
| 0:40.3 | chiropractic care and it's gonna be a long road and he wants to get married |
| 0:44.6 | here in the next few years. |
| 0:45.6 | Oh wow. |
| 0:46.6 | It's fantastic. |
| 0:47.6 | And then my daughter she's exploring all kinds of different dreams and options and |
| 0:51.9 | just excited for this next season but man |
| 0:54.6 | there are moments where it hits me right in the heart I'm in a miss all the |
| 0:59.7 | different stages we've been through and I'm looking forward to the one that's to come but it's |
| 1:04.1 | going to be very different my wife and I've been talking about that I just |
| 1:07.4 | recently had a trip with both my son and my daughter and I remember just |
| 1:11.7 | pausing for a moment and thinking through, oh wow, these are some |
| 1:17.0 | last laps, some of these trips. |
| 1:19.7 | And I look at them with joy and also with some sadness in there mixed in and I had a |
| 1:26.3 | tear coming down. |
| 1:27.3 | I have to admit that and there's a book that my daughter and I are doing together |
| 1:30.8 | that we decided to do this year and it's with this in mind and it's |
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