What do you do for the empty nest syndrome?

Question

What do you do for the empty nest syndrome?

Answer 1

Find some volunteer work to do.  Hospitals, police departments, schools and non-profit thrift stores and lots of other places all need people to help.

Or get a part time job.

Answer 2

As most will probably say - "Get a Life".  Take some classes, get out of the house, go to the park, feed the ducks, check to see what kind of "touristy" things are in your town or nearby and go see them!  Plan a vacation.  Get a hobby!!!   Read some books.  Even if you "never" read - START.  Go to the library and ask a librarian, or go on-line and Google "reading lists".  You can even go sit in the library to read the magazines and books.  If you like the first chapter, go out and buy it.  Sit on the back porch with a glass of lemonade and watch the birds.  Get a birdbath and put out birdseed.  Learn to paint.  Start a blog.  Carry around a digital camera (or use your camera phone) and e-mail the kids your photos.  You can even create on-line scrapbook pages with those pictures.  Write your life story.  Open up MS Word and get started.  If you don't want the whole story, just write down a few separate stories (the ones you will tell your grandchildren).  Paint the house.  Run around to window-shop everywhere in town you have never been.  Hit the flea markets, thrift shops, garage sales.  Meet people - stop and talk.  Stop and smell the roses.

Can I stop now?  

Answer 3

My advise to you is for you to get some new hobbies, and stay busy.  You have to fill the void.  nothing is as consistant as change, and, in life it seems we always have to re-adapt, and change.  i guess thats life.

best wishes

Answer 4

Start doing more things outside the home, if you get into a lot of activities outside the home, it will make you think less about the fact that the "kids" aren't there, and then you can call them now and then, and that will help too.

Answer 5

I cant be sure, as I havent gone through it...but I would suggest maybe getting a hobby? Something to keep your mind occupied...or better yet, anything that you can do in a group setting. Book club? Knitting circle? Movie nights? Take your hobby and turn it into something you can share with others and not oly will you make new friends, but i imagine it would help with that lonely feeling...